preconform
English
editEtymology
editVerb
editpreconform (third-person singular simple present preconforms, present participle preconforming, simple past and past participle preconformed)
- To conform by way of anticipation.
- 1847 February, Thomas De Quincey, “Notes on Walter Savage Landor”, in Leaders in Literature with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affecting Them (De Quincey’s Works; IX), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 327:
- [T]he passions […] are such passions as could not have existed under Paganism, in some respects they condescend and pre-conform to the stage.
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edit- “preconform”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.