"pre-history" meaning in All languages combined

See pre-history on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: pre-histories [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} pre-history (countable and uncountable, plural pre-histories)
  1. Alternative form of prehistory Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: prehistory
    Sense id: en-pre-history-en-noun-Pp-N8cZD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1979, Erhardt Güttgemanns, Candid Questions Concerning Gospel Form Criticism, page 132:",
          "text": "To be sure the anticipatory proleptics of the \"historical survey in future-form\" associated with pseudonymity rests upon the literary fiction of the pre-historicality of the revelation of these secrets; but this fictionality is intended to emphasize precisely by means of its esoteric quality that God will allow the elect righteous (cf. I Enoch 1:1) and wise persons (cf. I Enoch 100:6, 104:12) of the present day to participate already in his revelation that has proceeded from the mouths of the righteous and wise ones of pre-history, through the \"literary\" medium of the book.",
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