protomodern

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adjective

Of an earlier style approaching what is now modern.

“Robert Mallet's protomodern seismology in the mid-19th century CE”

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Meanings

adjectiveprotomodern (comparative more protomodern, superlative most protomodern)

comparative more protomodern · superlative most protomodern

  1. Of an earlier style approaching what is now modern.

    Robert Mallet's protomodern seismology in the mid-19th century CE

    1 more example

    Fenton, for example, veers from Victorian to protomodern.

    2008 June 6, Roberta Smith, “Aristocracy of Talent for an Egalitarian Art”, in New York Times

Origin

From proto- + modern.

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Translations

Indonesian protomodern, purwamodern
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APA

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

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

Chicago

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

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