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prerevolutionary

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From pre- +‎ revolutionary.

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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.

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