Preliterary

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Before the development of literature. not-comparable

    "In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of anthropology increased American and European contact with preliterary societies."

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preliterature

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"In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of anthropology increased American and European contact with preliterary societies."

Etymology

From pre- + literary.

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