prereligious

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adjective

Before the existence of religion.

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Meanings

adjectiveprereligious (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBefore the existence of religion.

    Here, they will naturally say, are tribes of men who have no religion because their forefathers never had any. They represent a prereligious stage of the human race, above which, in the course of ages, religious stages have risen[…]

    1870, E. B. Tylor, “The Philosophy of Religion”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 2, page 370

Origin

From pre- + religious.

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APA

prereligious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prereligious

MLA

“prereligious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prereligious. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prereligious,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prereligious.

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