premodern

adjective

pre·mod·ern ˌprē-ˈmä-dərn

nonstandard -ˈmä-d(ə-)rən

variants or pre-modern

: of, relating to, originating in, or being an era before a modern one

premodern societies/beliefs

the pre-modern world

in premodern times

… still living in huts and using pre-modern agricultural methods 150 years after the invention of the steam engine.—

Jo Ann Skousen

or pre-Modern : of, relating to, characterized by, or being any of the artistic and literary practices and philosophies that preceded those of modernism see modernism sense 3

pre-Modern architecture

a pre-Modern artist/writer

… following pre-modern conventions of pictorial composition, the artist combines several distinct vignettes within a single picture frame …—

Benjamin Schmidt

Examples of premodern in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Nature’s Pharmacopoeia Of course, these premodern observations were folk knowledge, not formal science. —

Adrienne Mayor, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024 Many premodern societies were patriarchal and violent, but Italy is in many ways unique. —

Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2024 One of the central propositions advanced by the late Qing thinkers was that China needed not merely to find a way out of the crisis facing China at that time but also to embed the solution in premodern Chinese cultural forms. —

Rana Mitter, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024 The show was slammed by medical experts, as a premodern birth process is associated with vastly higher infant mortality rates. —

Ew Staff Updated, EW.com, 29 Nov. 2023 See all Example Sentences for premodern

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