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premediating

premediating is the present participle and gerund of premediate.

Meaning of premediate

Verb

premediate (third-person singular simple present premediates, present participle premediating, simple past and past participle premediated)

  1. To advocate.
  2. To frame or mediate beforehand.
    • Just as remediation insists on the inseparabiilty of reality and mediation — the reality of media, their materiality as objects of circulation within the world of humans and non-humans, of society and of things — so the concept of premediation insists on the reality of premediated futures, or, as I...2010, R. Grusin, Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11, page 46

Questions about premediating

What is premediating the present participle and gerund of?
Premediating is the present participle and gerund of premediate.

Words near premediating in the dictionary

  1. premediaeval
  2. premedial
  3. premediate
  4. premediated
  5. premediates
  6. premediating
  7. premedic
  8. premedical
  9. premedicate
  10. premedicated
  11. premedicates

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