pre-history

English

pre-history (countable and uncountable, plural pre-histories)

Alternative form of prehistory
- 1979, Erhardt Güttgemanns, Candid Questions Concerning Gospel Form Criticism, page 132:
  To be sure the anticipatory proleptics of the "historical survey in future-form" associated with pseudonymity rests upon the literary fiction of the pre-historicality of the revelation of these secrets; but this fictionality is intended to emphasize precisely by means of its esoteric quality that God will allow the elect righteous (cf. I Enoch 1:1) and wise persons (cf. I Enoch 100:6, 104:12) of the present day to participate already in his revelation that has proceeded from the mouths of the righteous and wise ones of pre-history, through the "literary" medium of the book.
- 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 45:
  The dig was led by 41-year-old Robert Wetzel, a palaeontolgist, university professor and dedicated Nazi who had jointed Hitler's NSDAP in 1933 and was now head of pre-history at the University of Tübingen.