Prehumous

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Before death. not-comparable

    "There are certainly the portraits of men among them who, like the bad king that, according to his prehumous epitaph, never did a good thing, and therefore have no business in the good company in which we find them."

Synonyms

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antemortemanthumouspredeathpremortem

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"There are certainly the portraits of men among them who, like the bad king that, according to his prehumous epitaph, never did a good thing, and therefore have no business in the good company in which we find them."

Etymology

By analogy with posthumous, replacing post- with pre-.

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