Proposition, 1) reward or success offered to sight; promise: “the ample p. that hope makes in all designs begun on earth below fails in the promised largeness,” Troil. I, 3, 3.
2) a question asked: “it is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the --s of a lover,” As III, 2, 246.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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