protensive

comparative more protensive · superlative most protensive

1. Drawn out; extended.

   And then our patience is, as Christ's most exactly was, according to the will of God; when it is as extensive, as intensive, and as protensive as God requires it to be.

   1740, 1820, The Whole Works of John Flavel

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   Time, Protension or protensive quantity, called likewise Duration, is a necessary condition of thought. It may be considered both in itself and in the things which it contains.

   1852, William Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform

   Examples of the sublime—of this sudden effort, and of this instantaneous desisting from the attempt—are manifested in the extensive sublime of Space, and in the protensive sublime of Eternity.

   1870, John Clark Murray, Outline of Sir W. Hamilton's Philosophy, page 197

2. human sciencesAnticipating the future; pertaining to protention.

   The diversity as protensive is in the manifoldness of the successive instants through which the appearance as quality is prolonged .

   2009, Laurens Perseus Hickok, Rational Psychology, page 138

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   Their heightened enjoyment Iser explains in terms of the protensive tension provoked by the strategic interruption of the narrative at crucial moments .

   2010, Robert Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, page 110

   When McNay talks about 'protensive' subject formation, she is talking, in many ways, about an imagined (future oriented) space of possibility (the imagined self performing, or the desired narrative).

   2013, Dr Helen Thornham, Ethnographies of the Videogame, page 44