Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Prior to a revolution; specifically, prior to the American revolution.
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- adjective Occurring before a
revolution
Etymologies
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Examples
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In many countries of Latin American prerevolutionary conditions are incomparably better than those which existed in our country.
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The United States is in the midst of what we would both call a prerevolutionary moment, and there is widespread support for fundamental change in the system.
Expect a Third-Party Candidate in 2012 Patrick H. Caddell 2011
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Times are tough, yes, "" but this is not what you'd call a prerevolutionary situation. ''
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Iran in the 1980s, in which the broken Carter intelligence apparatus assessed, "Iran is not in a revolutionary or even a 'prerevolutionary' situation."
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He recently moved this prerevolutionary staple of Cairo intellectual life to the more capacious Opera House.
The Face of Egypt's Uprising Matthew Kaminski 2011
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Gesturing to the prerevolutionary Russian taste for feminine, French design is the beautifully intricate Casse-Noisette.
Designing Russia Alexandra Marshall 2011
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Novelist Vladimir Nabokov once explained the quiet power of Anton Chekhov's stories by noting that they illustrated the "gray" and "ineffectual" people unique to prerevolutionary Russia.
When Mockery Is All That's Left Eric Felten 2010
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The Salafis were largely absent from prerevolutionary political life, and their rapid ascent to the political mainstream—and widely suspected role in past incidents of sectarian violence— has alarmed liberal Egyptians and religious minorities.
Clashes Between Christians, Police Rock Cairo Matt Bradley 2011
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Mohammed Abu Sbeaa, a 21-year-old fighter in the Hamer Brigade, named after Tripoli's prerevolutionary parliament building, said he went through several weeks of training after joining the unit in mid-July.
Length of Libya's Standoff Hinges on Leader's Militia Margaret Coker 2011
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This vast expansion of the conventional definition of American art includes pre-Columbian artifacts, the museum's unparalleled American collection from the prerevolutionary period and the years of the Early Republic, examples of Latin American art and Native North American work from ancient to modern times, and contemporary American art through the mid-1970s.
The MFA's New Art of the Americas Wing . . . Ada Louise Huxtable 2011
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