prerevolutionary
prerevolutionary adjective: occurring before a revolution.
Adjective
prerevolutionary (not comparable)
- Occurring before a revolution.
- Although Brogan sees the history as a “medley of fiction and wishful thinking,” he is deeply impressed with Tocqueville’s pioneering use of local archives, which allowed him to lay out the continuity between prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary France.2007 July 8, Christopher Caldwell, “Even God Quotes Tocqueville”, in New York Times
- But there are those within the senior ranks of the Party who count you among the heroes of the prerevolutionary cause.2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN, page 7
- Synonyms:
- prerevolution
- Antonyms:
- postrevolutionary
Synonyms of prerevolutionary
Antonyms
Forms of prerevolutionary
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Origin of prerevolutionary
From pre- + revolutionary.
Questions about prerevolutionary
- What does prerevolutionary mean?
- Prerevolutionary means occurring before a revolution.
- What part of speech is prerevolutionary?
- Prerevolutionary is an adjective.
Words near prerevolutionary in the dictionary
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