Pro
[prəʊ] or [pro]
Definition
(noun.) an argument in favor of a proposal.
(adj.) in favor of (an action or proposal etc.); 'a pro vote' .
(adv.) in favor of a proposition, opinion, etc..
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Definition
(a.) A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.
(adv.) For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; -- in contrast with con.
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Definition
Latin prep. meaning before used in English in many phrases.—Pro and con abbrev. of pro et contra for and against.—v.i. to consider impartially.—n.pl. Pros and cons arguments for and against an opinion.—Pro bono publico for the public good.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
and CON Prefixes of opposite meaning. For example, Progress and Congress.
Editor: Madge
Examples
- At night, naked and scarcely pro tected from the wind and rain of this tempestuous c limate, they slept on the wet ground coiled up like animals. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Call them pro-Germans, international financiers, or profiteers, and they will give you any ransom you choose to ask not to speak of them so harshly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If I find a reason _pro_ equal to some _two_ reasons _con_ I strike out the _three_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was to the divine Emperor that his book was dedicated as a pro test against the administration of Roman public works. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Rather than pass upon an uncertainty, the experiment will be dissected and checked minutely in order to obtain absolute knowledge, pro and con. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Action with a purpose is deliberate; it involves a consciously foreseen end and a mental weighing of considerations pro and eon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was a folio, _pro patria_ size, in pica, with long-primer notes. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- When, later on, the Persians began to subjugate the Greek cities of Asia Minor, they set up pro-Persian tyrants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This is a pro cess of artificial selection. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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