Meanings
- not comparablerareRare spelling of premortem.
[…]God, or the ascent apocalypses with the prae-mortem ascent to heaven of an elect hero.
2006, Peter Schäfer, Elisabeth Müller-Luckner, editors, Mystical Approaches to God: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Oldenbourgh Wissenschaftsverlag, →ISBN, page 422 more examples
I am convinced that the dead-house has had its day, and that prae-mortem, rather than post-mortem studies should engage our attention.
1907, Charles G. Hill, “Presidential Address”, in Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association at the Sixty-Third Annual Meeting Held in Washington, D. C., May 7-10, 1907, American Medico-Psychological Association, page 92In intellectual work, as in work of most other kinds, one condition for success is the ability to lay out, to the best advantage, the short span of a human being’s working lifetime between infancy and death (or, worse than death itself, prae-mortem senility).
1967, Encounter, volume 28, page 36, column 1
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