"preconform" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From pre- + conform.",
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      "form": "preconforms",
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "preconforming",
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    {
      "form": "preconformed",
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    {
      "form": "preconformed",
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          "ref": "1847 February, Thomas De Quincey, “Notes on Walter Savage Landor”, in Leaders in Literature with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affecting Them (De Quincey’s Works; IX), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 327:",
          "text": "[T]he passions […] are such passions as could not have existed under Paganism, in some respects they condescend and pre-conform to the stage.",
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        "To conform by way of anticipation."
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          "conform",
          "conform"
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        [
          "anticipation",
          "anticipation"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "preconformity"
        }
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  "word": "preconform"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pre- + conform.",
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    {
      "form": "preconforms",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preconforming",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preconformed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preconformed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "To conform by way of anticipation."
      ],
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          "conform",
          "conform"
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          "anticipation",
          "anticipation"
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