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Decontextualized vs Prooftext - What's the difference?

decontextualized | prooftext |

As a verb decontextualized

is past tense of decontextualize.

As a noun prooftext is

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.

decontextualized

English

Verb

(head)
  • (decontextualize)

    • decontextualize

    English

    Verb

    (decontextualiz)
  • To divest of context.

    • prooftext

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia prooftext) (prooftexts)
  • 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.

    • References

    * Prooftext, Prooftexting, in ''Definition of Christian Terms