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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
preconform .
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Examples
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No less was De Quincey _psychologically_ preconformed to opium.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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De Quincey's physical system, on the contrary, seemed preconformed to opium: it demanded it, and would be satisfied with nothing else.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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_ There are in fact two classes of temperaments as to this terrific drug -- those which are and those which are not preconformed to its power; those which genially expand to its temptations, and those which frostily exclude them.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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There are, in fact, two classes of temperaments as to this terrific drug -- those which are, and those which are not, preconformed to its power; those which genially expand to its temptations, and those which frostily exclude them.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers Thomas De Quincey 1822
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There are, in fact, two classes of temperaments as to this terrific drug -- those which are, and those which are not, preconformed to its power; those which genially expand to its temptations, and those which frostily exclude them.
Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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