Definition of Premoral

1. preceding the development of a moral code [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Premoral

premonition
premonitions
premonitor
premonitorily
premonitors
premonitory
premonsoon
premonstrate
premonstrated
premonstrates
premonstrating
premonstration
premonstrations
premonstrator
premonstrators
premoral (current term)
premorbid
premorse
premortal
premosaic
premotion
premotor
premounted
premove
premoved
premoves
premoving
prems
premultiply
premune

Literary usage of Premoral

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent (2002)
"During the second of the two post-premoral stages—designated as the autonomous stage and lasting from 8 to 10 years of age—the child's concept of morals ..."

2. Democracy and Race Friction: A Study in Social Ethics by John Moffatt Mecklin (1914)
"... and premoral in the evolution of the race, feels that the ordinary processes of law are utterly inadequate and hence under the form ..."

3. Democracy and Race Friction: A Study in Social Ethics by John Moffatt Mecklin (1914)
"... premoral in the evolution of the race, feels that the ordinary processes of law are utterly inadequate and hence under the form of mob law often reverts ..."

4. The Physiology of Mind: Being the First Part of a Third Edition, Revised by Henry Maudsley (1889)
"presumably displayed in unrestrained freedom in the premoral ages of its existence. Consequently, when such an insane being appears on the scene, ..."

5. Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings, by Henry Maudsley by Henry Maudsley (1886)
"... as it would have been impossible for a primeval savage of the premoral ages to have foretold how men would dwell together, or, failing the fact, ..."

6. The Pathology of Mind by Henry Maudsley (1895)
"How exhibit them otherwise than in their brutal simplicity, naked but not ashamed, pretty much as they were exhibited in the premoral ages of human life on ..."

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