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preoriginal

preoriginal adjective: before the (presumed) original.

Adjective

preoriginal (not comparable)

  1. Before the (presumed) original.
    • It is, rather, that element of saying which is merely a particular form of the said, specifically, the way something (including the preoriginal element of language) is said.2005, Dennis King Keenan, The Question of Sacrifice, page 83
    • Not because, as preoriginal, it would be more originary than the origin, but because […]2018, David Patterson, The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable (pge 120)

Origin of preoriginal

pre- + original

Questions about preoriginal

What does preoriginal mean?
Preoriginal means before the (presumed) original.
What part of speech is preoriginal?
Preoriginal is an adjective.

Words near preoriginal in the dictionary

  1. preorgasmic
  2. preorgastic
  3. preorientation
  4. preoriented
  5. preorigin
  6. preoriginal
  7. preorigins
  8. preorogenic
  9. preosseous
  10. preosteoblast
  11. preosteoblastic

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