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prereligious

prereligious adjective: before the existence of religion.

Adjective

prereligious (not comparable)

  1. Before the existence of religion.
    • Here, they will naturally say, are tribes of men who have no religion because their forefathers never had any. They represent a prereligious stage of the human race, above which, in the course of ages, religious stages have risen[…]1870, E. B. Tylor, “The Philosophy of Religion”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 2, page 370

Origin of prereligious

From pre- + religious.

Questions about prereligious

What does prereligious mean?
Prereligious means before the existence of religion.
What part of speech is prereligious?
Prereligious is an adjective.

Words near prereligious in the dictionary

  1. prerelaxing
  2. prerelease
  3. prereleased
  4. prereleases
  5. prereleasing
  6. prereligious
  7. preremission
  8. preremote
  9. preremoval
  10. prerenal
  11. prerender

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