prerevolutionary

English

Alternative forms

pre-revolutionary

Etymology

pre- +‎ revolutionary

Adjective

prerevolutionary (not comparable)

Occurring before a revolution.
- 2007 July 8, Christopher Caldwell, “Even God Quotes Tocqueville”, in New York Times‎:
  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.

Synonyms

prerevolution

Antonyms

postrevolutionary

Translations

occurring before a revolution

French: prérévolutionnaire (fr)
German: vorrevolutionär, prärevolutionär
Hungarian: forradalom előtti

Italian: prerivoluzionario
Russian: дореволюцио́нный (ru) (dorevoljuciónnyj)
Swedish: förrevolutionär (sv)

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