Word Meanings - PRECONFORMITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anticipative or antecedent conformity. Coleridge.

ANTICIPATIVE
Anticipating, or containing anticipation. "Anticipative of the feast to come." Cary. -- An*tic"i*pa*tive*ly, adv.
ANTECEDENT
1. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. 2. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. Syn. -- Prior; previous; foregoing.
CONFORMITY
1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. By our conformity to God. Tillotson. The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. Dr. H.More.
ANTECEDENTLY
Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.
INCONFORMITY
Want of conformity; nonconformity.
DISCONFORMITY
Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement. Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves. Milton. Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind. Hakewill.
UNCONFORMITY
Want of parallelism between strata in contact. Note: With some authors unconformity is equivalent to unconformability; but it is often used more broadly, for example, to include the case when the parallelism of strata once conformable
NONCONFORMITY
Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.
PRECONFORMITY
Anticipative or antecedent conformity. Coleridge.