protensive

From Latin prōtēnsīvus, from prōtendō (“draw out”).

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɛnsɪv/, /pɹoʊˈtɛnsɪv/

protensive (comparative more protensive, superlative most protensive)

1. Drawn out; extended.
   • 1740, 1820, The Whole Works of John Flavel:

     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.

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

     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.

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

     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.

2. (phenomenology) Anticipating the future; pertaining to protention.
   • 2009, Laurens Perseus Hickok, Rational Psychology, page 138:

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

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

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

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

     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).

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