单词 | pre-imagination |
释义 | pre-imaginationn. Now rare. Imagination of something before the actual existence or experience of it. ΚΠ 1839 S. T. Coleridge Let. 4 Sept. in Mem. & Lett. (1873) I. viii. 229 It..is the pre-imagination of the difficulty of pronouncing a word that ties the tongue in those who stammer. 1896 Mind 5 424 To believe is to have the sensation très nette et aucunement entravée that verification will follow our pre-imagination of the future. 2001 Columbia Daily Spectator (Nexis) 21 Sept. Compounding the pre-imagination of September 11 was that a lot of Hollywood product in the weeks to follow was along similar, if not identical, subject matter. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1839 |
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