premundane
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Synonym of antemundane; existing before the creation of the world.
Example Sentences
- "the heavenly Adam, one of the premundane creations of God"
- "[...] having made truth transcendent we must make mind transcendent, endowing it with the ultramundane, if not premundane, life of the soul."
- "With irresistible force Feuerbach is finally driven to the realisation that the Hegelian premundane existence of the “absolute idea”, the “pre-existence of the logical categories” before the world existed, is nothing more than the fantastic survival of the belief in the existence of an extramundane creator [...]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English mundane English premundane From pre- + mundane.