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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

preliterary en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + literary.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Before the development of literature.
    • In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of anthropology increased American and European contact with preliterary societies. 2012, Dan Story, Should Christians Be Environmentalists?, page 46: