prerevolutionaryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From pre- +‎ revolutionary.

形容詞

prerevolutionary (not comparable)

1. Occurring before a revolution.

   Synonym: prerevolution

   Antonym: postrevolutionary

   • 2007 July 8, Christopher Caldwell, “Even God Quotes Tocqueville”, in New York Times‎:

     Although Brogan sees the history as a “medley of fiction and wishful thinking,” he is deeply impressed with Tocqueville’s pioneering use of local archives, which allowed him to lay out the continuity between prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary France.

   • 2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN, page 7:

     But there are those within the senior ranks of the Party who count you among the heroes of the prerevolutionary cause.