prerevolutionary

English

Alternative forms

• pre-revolutionary

Etymology

pre- +‎ revolutionary

Adjective

prerevolutionary (not comparable)

1. Occurring before a revolution.
   • 2007 July 8, Christopher Caldwell, “Even God Quotes Tocqueville”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

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

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

Synonyms

• prerevolution

Antonyms

• postrevolutionary

Translations

occurring before a revolution

• French: prérévolutionnaire (fr)
• German: vorrevolutionär, prärevolutionär
• Hungarian: forradalom előtti
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• Italian: prerivoluzionario
• Russian: дореволюцио́нный (ru) (dorevoljuciónnyj)
• Swedish: förrevolutionär (sv)