prae-mortem
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I am convinced that the dead-house has had its day, and that prae-mortem, rather than post-mortem studies should engage our attention."
- "In intellectual work, as in work of most other kinds, one condition for success is the ability to lay out, to the best advantage, the short span of a human being’s working lifetime between infancy and death (or, worse than death itself, prae-mortem senility)."
- "[…]God, or the ascent apocalypses with the prae-mortem ascent to heaven of an elect hero."