English

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Etymology

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pre- +‎ populist

Adjective

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prepopulist (not comparable)

  1. Prior to the onset of populism.
    • 2007 October 26, The New York Times, “Movie Guide and Film Series”, in New York Times[1]:
      STANWYCK REDUX (Tuesday) An extension of the Brooklyn Academy of Music s popular Barbara Stanwyck series from last spring, featuring that Brooklyn bombshell in one of her strongest pre-Code films, The Miracle Woman, a thinly veiled portrait of the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson directed, in his prepopulist phase, by Frank Capra.