"preorigin" meaning in All languages combined

See preorigin on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: preorigins [plural]
Etymology: From pre- + origin. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|pre|origin}} pre- + origin Head templates: {{en-noun}} preorigin (plural preorigins)
  1. An ultimate source or origin, before the generally known or accepted origin.

Inflected forms

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    {
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre",
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      },
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      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pre- + origin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "preorigins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "preorigin (plural preorigins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "English terms prefixed with pre-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Lynne Huffer, Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures, page 78:",
          "text": "In order to uncover and thereby unleash the force that both constitutes and disrupts signification in language, Kristeva returns to what she identifies as the source of that force, an ontological preorigin of meaning.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jacques de Ville, Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality:",
          "text": "The positing of an origin in other words always goes along with the suppression of its own pre-origin.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An ultimate source or origin, before the generally known or accepted origin."
      ],
      "id": "en-preorigin-en-noun-P8TkAzQT",
      "links": [
        [
          "ultimate",
          "ultimate"
        ],
        [
          "source",
          "source"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "preorigin"
}
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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre",
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      },
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      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pre- + origin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "preorigins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "preorigin (plural preorigins)",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Lynne Huffer, Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures, page 78:",
          "text": "In order to uncover and thereby unleash the force that both constitutes and disrupts signification in language, Kristeva returns to what she identifies as the source of that force, an ontological preorigin of meaning.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jacques de Ville, Jacques Derrida: Law as Absolute Hospitality:",
          "text": "The positing of an origin in other words always goes along with the suppression of its own pre-origin.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "An ultimate source or origin, before the generally known or accepted origin."
      ],
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          "ultimate",
          "ultimate"
        ],
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          "source",
          "source"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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