prooftext noun 1verb 1forms 3 noun1 •A decontextualized quotation from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority. verb1 •To use decontextualized quotations from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority. formsprooftexted · prooftexting · prooftexts
