preliterary

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ literary

Adjective

preliterary (not comparable)

  1. Before the development of literature.
    • 2012, Dan Story, Should Christians Be Environmentalists?, page 46:
      In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of anthropology increased American and European contact with preliterary societies.
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