prenomination

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ nomination.

Adjective

prenomination (not comparable)

1. before a nomination

   prenomination speech

   prenomination rumors

Noun

prenomination (plural prenominations)

1. The act of prenominating.
2. The privilege of being named first.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     Moreover if we concede, that the animals of one Element, might bear the names of those in the other, yet in strict reason the watery productions should have the prenomination: and they of the land rather derive their names, then nominate those of the Sea. That all Animals of the Land, are in their kind in the Sea.

References

• “prenomination”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.