prehumous

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prehumous

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By analogy with posthumous, replacing post- with pre-.

adjective

  1. not comparable Before death. There are certainly the portraits of men among them who, like the bad king that, according to his prehumous epitaph, never did a good thing, and therefore have no business in the good company in which we find them.

    Similar: antemortem, anthumous, predeath, premortem

Opposite: posthumous, post mortem

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Opposite: posthumous, post mortem

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@misc{prehumous_2026,
  title = {prehumous},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/prehumous},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}