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单词 pre-imagination
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pre-imaginationn.

Brit. /priːᵻˌmadʒᵻˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /priᵻˌmædʒəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre- prefix, imagination n.
Etymology: < pre- prefix + imagination n., after pre-imagine v. Compare pre-imagined adj.
Now rare.
Imagination of something before the actual existence or experience of it.
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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).
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