prerevolutionary

alternative pre-revolutionary

1. not comparableOccurring before a revolution.

   But there are those within the senior ranks of the Party who count you among the heroes of the prerevolutionary cause.

   2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN, page 7

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   Although Brogan sees the history as a “medley of fiction and wishful thinking,” he is deeply impressed with Tocqueville’s pioneering use of local archives, which allowed him to lay out the continuity between prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary France.

   2007 July 8, Christopher Caldwell, “Even God Quotes Tocqueville”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: prerevolution · Antonyms: postrevolutionary