premediate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To advocate.
verb
To frame or mediate beforehand.
Example Sentences
- "Just as remediation insists on the inseparabiilty of reality and mediation — the reality of media, their materiality as objects of circulation within the world of humans and non-humans, of society and of things — so the concept of premediation insists on the reality of premediated futures, or, as I argue later in this chapter, on the reality of these virtual futures."
- "But the cueing of atrocity memory through substitutional representation can also be deployed to premediate events– in other words to frame the story before the event even begins ."
- "Rather, by trying to premediate as many of the possible worlds, or possible paths, as the future could be imagined to take, premediation bears some affinities to the logic of designing a video game.."
- "Both, however, premediate the future by naming the migration effects of climate change in advance of their occurring and, in doing so, at least partially ensure that, should such futures materialise, they will not register as unanticipated political emergencies but as fully anticipated outcomes of climate change."