preconform

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ conform.

Verb

preconform (third-person singular simple present preconforms, present participle preconforming, simple past and past participle preconformed)

1. To conform by way of anticipation.
   • 1847 February, Thomas De Quincey, “Notes on Walter Savage Landor”, in Leaders in Literature with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affecting Them (De Quincey’s Works; IX), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 327:

     [T]he passions […] are such passions as could not have existed under Paganism, in some respects they condescend and pre-conform to the stage.

Related terms

• preconformity

Further reading

• “preconform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.