prerevolutionary

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Realizing they could not return to the prerevolutionary era, proponents of conservatism instead sought to suppress the forces of nationalism and liberalism as a means of reining in newfound principles of democracy and republicanism.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

There is no chapter on France, and where it is mentioned elsewhere the focus is on prerevolutionary affairs.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2019

Mr. Damon’s character, a working-class prodigy, cuts him down to size: “Next year, you’re gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin’ about, you know, the prerevolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2018

The title alone, from a love lyric by the prerevolutionary poet Forugh Farrokhzad that Behzad recites, suggests the irrepressible beauty of playtime.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2014

It is also not restricted to our time: Sumerian cylinder seals from the third millennium b.c. and Taoist flags in prerevolutionary China displayed constellations.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan