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Webster 1913 Edition
Prompture
Promp′ture
(?; 135)
, Noun.
[See ]
Prompt
, Adj.
Suggestion; incitement; prompting.
[R.]
Shak. Coleridge.
Webster 1828 Edition
Prompture
PROMPT'URE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
prompture
prompture
English
Noun
prompture (plural promptures)
- suggestion; incitement; prompting
- c.1603–1604, Shakespeare, William, Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 4:
- 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.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep,
Has not Love's whisper evermore
Been ceaseless, as thy gentle roar?
- Has not, since then, Love's prompture deep,
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