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beforelife en · NOUN

Etymology

By analogy with afterlife.

Meanings

1. An existence before the beginning of life.
   • Imagine that before any of us is born, we all get together in the beforelife (the pre-birth version of the afterlife) for a meeting to design the rules that will govern society. 2012, N. Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Economics, sixth edition, page 426:
   • The roads men choose in the beforelife lead to infinite joy or infinite misery in the afterlife. 2009, Randy Alcorn, Edge of Eternity, →ISBN, page 258:
   • The point is that, however secular our culture may be, notions of an afterlife (and/or a beforelife) seem to be dying rather hard. 2014, William Lowell Randall, The Stories We Are: An Essay on Self-Creation, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 150:

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Relateds

afterlife · forelife