Prereligious

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Before the existence of religion. not-comparable

    "Here, they will naturally say, are tribes of men who have no religion because their forefathers never had any. They represent a prereligious stage of the human race, above which, in the course of ages, religious stages have risen[…]"

Example

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"Here, they will naturally say, are tribes of men who have no religion because their forefathers never had any. They represent a prereligious stage of the human race, above which, in the course of ages, religious stages have risen[…]"

Etymology

From pre- + religious.

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