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prenominations

prenominations is the plural of prenomination.

Meaning of prenomination

Noun

prenomination (plural prenominations)

  1. The act of prenominating.
  2. The privilege of being named first.
    • Moreover if we concede, that the animals of one Element, might bear the names of those in the other, yet in strict reason the watery productions should have the prenomination: and they of the land rather derive their names, then nominate those of the Sea. That all Animals of the Land, are in their...1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

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Questions about prenominations

What is prenominations the plural of?
Prenominations is the plural of prenomination.

Words near prenominations in the dictionary

  1. prenominate
  2. prenominated
  3. prenominates
  4. prenominating
  5. prenomination
  6. prenominations
  7. prenoms
  8. prenoon
  9. prenote
  10. prenoted
  11. prenotes

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