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n. The practice of using decontextualized quotations from a document (often, but not always, a book of the Bible) to establish a proposition rhetorically through an appeal to authority.

"The prooftext frequently cited for this unilateral ruling was Genesis 35: 11, where Jacob is commanded in the second person masculine singular to “Be fertile and increase.”"