"ante litteram" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "Latin ante (“before”)",
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          "text": "In the fifteenth century, he espoused ecology ante litteram. He endorsed ecology before the term \"ecology\" existed.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Patricia Vilches, Gerald E. Seaman, Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli, page 191",
          "text": "What could have been a moral victory or arguably a feminist struggle ante litteram remains a farcical squabble between a nagging wife and a ridiculous old man.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Davide Rodogno, Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815-1914, page 16",
          "text": "the new mass media played an increasingly crucial role throughout the nineteenth century as an ante litteram CNN.",
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        "Before the term existed; before the term was coined."
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          "word": "avant la lettre"
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  "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from Latin ante litteram.",
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1994, Massimo Baldini, La storia delle utopie, page 92",
          "text": "È una utopia «non solo sociale, ma scientifica e cosmica. Réstif è evoluzionista e lamarckiano ante litteram, ma con accenti fantastici»",
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "2013, Massimo Pazienti, Le guide di Roma tra medioevo e novecento: Dai mirabilia urbis ai baedeker, page 49",
          "text": "Simbolo di questo nuovo approccio, non più immaginifico ma archeologico ante litteram, ai resti classici è proprio l'aggirarsi di Poggio Bracciolini tra le rovine dei monumenti, abbandonati tra le erbacce ed esposti alle spoliazioni, per “interrogarli”.",
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          "ref": "2005, Mark Twain (from the Introduction by translator Giuseppe Culicchia), Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn, page 3",
          "text": "E mettendo il racconto in bocca a un teppista ante litteram come Huck Finn, che a scoula ci va raramente e in ogni caso mai volentieri, opera un scempio (scientifico) della grammatica e della sintassi.",
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          "word": "avantilettera"
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Davide Rodogno, Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815-1914, page 16",
          "text": "the new mass media played an increasingly crucial role throughout the nineteenth century as an ante litteram CNN.",
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  "word": "ante litteram"
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  "pos": "adv",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "Simbolo di questo nuovo approccio, non più immaginifico ma archeologico ante litteram, ai resti classici è proprio l'aggirarsi di Poggio Bracciolini tra le rovine dei monumenti, abbandonati tra le erbacce ed esposti alle spoliazioni, per “interrogarli”.",
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        },
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          "text": "E mettendo il racconto in bocca a un teppista ante litteram come Huck Finn, che a scoula ci va raramente e in ogni caso mai volentieri, opera un scempio (scientifico) della grammatica e della sintassi.",
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