pre-revolutionary

A form of prerevolutionary — Occurring before a revolution.

Meanings

adjectivepre-revolutionary (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of prerevolutionary.

    During the past three decades historians have conceived new ways of thinking about the pre-revolutionary polity and public life and have emphasised its participatory and semi-republican or quasi-republican elements.

    2013, Markku Peltonen, Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England, →ISBN, page 3
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