prehumously
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]prehumously (not comparable)
- Before death.
- 1926, Medical Life, volume XXXIII, page 270:
- Prior to the coming event, the father of the as-yet-unborn Tristram is indulging in some serious speculations with the Doctor relevant to the site of the human soul. Tristram relates prehumously, one might say, the prevailing thoughts of his father: […]
- 1973, James C. Humes, Instant Eloquence: A Lazy Man’s Guide to Public Speaking, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 64:
- (Whenever my demise, I can assure you what I say today will not ever be published posthumously or even “prehumously” … )
- 1976, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, page 198:
- Micky does not see the point of Harold’s choice to race the tide. Harold’s last words are ‘Well, you will some day.’ There is a point, then; Harold sees it immediately and prehumously, while Micky will see it posthumously. The literal meaning of ‘see’ lends spatial context to the ‘point,’ the temporal context of which is established by Harold’s last words. The mathematically literal meaning of ‘point’ is ‘position without extension.’
- 1979, The Journals of A. H. Maslow, Monterey, Calif.: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 868:
- Announce death-defying journals & book—a style which can be published anytime. Maybe I should do a posthumous book out of journals prehumously.
- 1981, Warman Welliver, Dante in Hell: The De Vulgari Eloquentia, Ravenna: A. Longo Editore, page 30:
- Even more evocative of the De Vulgari as a whole than Dante’s deceit is the extraordinary chronology of these sinners’ punishment: just as the De Vulgari is Dante’s prehumous Hell, so do these suffer Hell prehumously, their souls consigned there while their bodies yet live.
- 1995, The Journal of the California Dental Association, page 70:
- We were pleased to note that a couple of our own were honored prehumously a few months ago for their contributions to dentistry.