Protomodern

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of an earlier style approaching what is now modern.

    "Robert Mallet's protomodern seismology in the mid-19th century CE"

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"Robert Mallet's protomodern seismology in the mid-19th century CE"

Etymology

From proto- + modern.

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