preengagement
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A prior engagement or obligation, for example by contract or promise.
Example Sentences
- "1650s-1660s', Robert Boyle, Some Specimens of an Attempt to make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy My pre-engagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write."
- "unchangeable preengagement"
Etymology
From pre- + engagement.