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Alternative forms

• pre-revolutionary

Adjective

prerevolutionary ‎(not comparable)

1. Occurring before a revolution
   • 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.

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• postrevolutionary

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