prenomination

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adjective

before a nomination

“prenomination speech”

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Meanings

adjectiveprenomination (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebefore a nomination

    prenomination speech

    1 more example

    prenomination rumors

nounprenomination (plural prenominations)

plural prenominations

  1. The act of prenominating.
  2. The privilege of being named first.
    1 more example

    Moreover if we concede, that the animals of one Element, might bear the names of those in the other, yet in strict reason the watery productions should have the prenomination: and they of the land rather derive their names, then nominate those of the Sea. That all Animals of the Land, are in their kind in the Sea.

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

From pre- + nomination.

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APA

prenomination. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prenomination

MLA

“prenomination.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prenomination. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prenomination,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prenomination.

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