prae-
Americanprefix
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For Prae Pupityastaporn, a Thai landscape painter whose works are being presented at Frieze Seoul by the Nova Contemporary gallery in Bangkok, working with two similar paintings side by side can depict the delicate balance between memory and the present moment.
From New York Times
Preposterous, adjective: from the Latin prae-, meaning “before,” and posterus, or “coming after.”
From New York Times
The Latin prae – before – and tendere meaning to stretch.
From The Guardian
Invenimus etiam prae manibus tuis exemplum litterarum manu tua exaratum quibus O'Nellus ille summum Pontificem rogat ut tibi fidem adhibeat non modo in his quae illi dicturus eras de beneficiorum Ecclesiasticorum dispensatione apud Hibernos, sed etiam de omnibus rebus publicis Hibernorum?
From Project Gutenberg
The faultiness of a majority of the Uncials is corrected by Cursives, Versions, Fathers.70.“Inter plures unius loci lectiones ea pro suspecta merito habetur, quae orthodoxorum dogmatibus manifeste prae ceteris favet.”
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