Prompture
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 suggestion, incitement, or prompting countable, obsolete, uncountable
"I'll to my brother: Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood, Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour. That had he twenty heads to tender down On twenty bloody blocks, he'd yield them up, Before his sister should her body stoop To such abhorr'd pollution."
Example
More examples"I'll to my brother: Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood, Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour. That had he twenty heads to tender down On twenty bloody blocks, he'd yield them up, Before his sister should her body stoop To such abhorr'd pollution."
Etymology
From prompt + -ure.
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