"preformationist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 219:",
          "text": "Preformationists rejoined that Harveian epigenesis was unscientific, for such a virtue could not be observed.",
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        "A proponent of the theory of preformationism."
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        "(biology, historical) A proponent of the theory of preformationism."
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          "sense": "a proponent of the theory of preformationism",
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          "word": "preformista"
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