prooftext
verbEtymology From proof + text.
1
To use decontextualized quotations from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.
prooftext
nounEtymology From proof + text.
1
A decontextualized quotation from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.