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antemundane en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Classical Latin ante-lbor. English ante- English mundane English antemundane From ante- + mundane.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Being or occurring prior to the creation of the world.
   • Again he became the sorcerer Zon Mezzamalech in Mhu Thulan; again he dreamt to retrieve the wisdom of the antemundane gods […] 1933, Clark Ashton Smith, Ubbo-Sathla:
   • The night in all its fulness met her flatly on the threshold, like the very brink of an absolute void, or the ante-mundane Ginnung-Gap believed in by her Teuton forefathers. 1887, Thomas Hardy, chapter 3, in The Woodlanders, volume I, page 31:

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Synonyms

premundane