presectarian

Adjective

presectarian (comparative more presectarian, superlative most presectarian)

1. Prior to sects; prior to sectarianism.
   • He makes the important observation that Tillemont embodied the presectarian and pre-Jansenist traditions of Port-Royal (pp. 278-279).1966 Jul, Martin R. P. McGuire, “Louis-Sebastien le Nain de Tillemont”, in The Catholic Historical Review, volume 52, number 2, page 190
   • In Ireland, just at this time undergoing its literary revival, the Edenic moment was displaced back into the pre-Christian (and therefore presectarian) past and the model figures that emerged as types of Irish identity were, of necessity, legendary—like Cuchalain—and, by nature, susceptible to...1990, Seamus Deane, “Introduction,”, in Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 9