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Prompting   /prˈɑmptɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Prompt  v. t.  (past & past part. prompted; pres. part. prompting)  
1.
To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite. "God first... prompted on the infirmities of the infant world by temporal prosperity."
2.
To suggest; to dictate. "And whispering angles prompt her golden dreams."
3.
To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.





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"Prompting" Quotes from Famous Books



... wasn't for want of prompting," said Hastings drily. "Still, the will was sealed, and handed me by Harry on the express understanding that it was not to be opened until we had proof that he was dead or the six months mentioned had expired. If he turned up it would, of course, be handed back ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... thought Paliser, who specialised in that article. But, a second thought prompting, he wondered whether it were a lie. His knowledge of Cassy refuted it. At the same time, where women are concerned, you never know. One thing, however, he did know. In his quality of expert he knew that there are statements ...
— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus
... within me was tamed, and I, who but a few minutes before had been ready to take two lives at the prompting of a single word, dropped my dagger and stood with bowed head, humble as a chidden child before her whose lightest word was then my most sacred law. I raised my eyes and looked at her to see if my words had pleased her. As our eyes met she gave me a glance ...
— The Romance of Golden Star ... • George Chetwynd Griffith
... recognize the position of the subjective mind as the supporter of the whole individuality we cannot doubt that much of what we take to be the spontaneous movement of the objective mind has its origin in the subjective mind prompting the objective mind in the right direction without our being consciously aware of it. But at times when the urgency of the case seems to demand it, or when, for some reason yet unknown, the objective mind is for a while more closely en rapport with the ...
— The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science • Thomas Troward
... work, make out an Abstract of each chapter in writing, and then deal only with this Abstract. Whenever the Subject is not treated in a desultory manner, but with logical precision, you will soon be able to find Suggestive or Prompting Words in the Sequence of Ideas and in the successive Links in the Chain of Thought that runs through the exposition. If there is no such Sequence of Ideas or Chain of Thought running through it, it may serve as an amusement, but is little likely ...
— Assimilative Memory - or, How to Attend and Never Forget • Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)


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