preofficial
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]preofficial (not comparable)
- Prior to officialdom.
- 2015, Linda Rui Feng, City of Marvel and Transformation, page 11:
- It breaks us from the habit of seeing preofficial life as a simple preparatory imitation of the career to come, and from thinking of literati men as if they had always been incumbent officials […]