Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Parusia

Parusia (pȧ*ru"zhi*ȧ) , noun

[New Latin, from Greek paroysi`a presence, from parei^nai to be present; para` beside + e'i^nai to be.]

(Rhetoric) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.