Proleptically

When we name an event, calling it fire, we speak proleptically; we do not name an immediate event; that is impossible. We employ a term of discourse; we invoke a meaning, namely, the potential consequence of the existence.

The ultimacy of God's eschatological revelation impinges proleptically on . . . and, then, it all gets over my head.

Fullerton, in real life apparently a magnetic, equal opportunity Lothario[…]is written here[…] as more of a puppy than a hound, making campy references to Wharton by her childhood name, Pussy Jones, and proleptically quoting Mae West.