preliterary
- a word derived from literary.
Example Sentences
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We harbor the notiron of a preliterary world, where ideas have yet to be born and we commune directly with reality.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2016
In our survey of preliterary Latin we had occasion to notice that one of its characteristics was a lack of fixity in the use of forms or constructions.
From The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Abbott, Frank Frost
It is, in fact, impossible for us moderns, educated in a long literary tradition, to live our lives as naturally and naïvely as the unlettered of to-day, or the people of the preliterary geological epoch.
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
The development then of preliterary Latin under the influence of this systematizing, synthetical influence gave rise to literary Latin, while its independent growth more nearly in accordance with its original genius produced colloquial Latin.
From The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Abbott, Frank Frost
Of this preliterary Latin we have no record.
From The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Abbott, Frank Frost
