preclusion

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively

Borrowed from Latin praeclusio, praeclusionis, from Latin praecludo.

On some future occasion, more especially demanding such disquisition, I shall attempt to prove the close connection between veracity and habits of mental accuracy; the beneficial after-effects of verbal precision in the preclusion of fanaticism, which masters the feelings more especially by indistinct watch-words; and to display the advantages which language alone, at least which language with incomparably greater ease and certainty than any other means, presents to the instructor of impressing modes of intellectual energy so constantly, so imperceptibly, and as it were by such elements and atoms, as to secure in due time the formation of a second nature. — Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

obviation, forestalling

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