Meaning of preestablishment | Babel Free
Definitions
- Rare spelling of preestablishment.
- The act of establishing or settling something beforehand.
Examples
“In this way he dams the stream and prevents the issuing waters, and puts out and kills in a moment all desire and hope⟳ of knowledge, declaring that harmony is preëstablished, or what is the same thing, that the preëstablishment is an occult quality.[…]I shall not here entertain the question⟳, how far these propositions are consistent with the foregoing, or with the system of preëstablishment;”
“The true reason⟳ for the preëstablishment of this Feast of Weeks, was then shown to be something greater than the giving of the Law;”
“You may admit⟳ some under specific, and some under ad valorem duties,—some under a low rate, and some under a high one,—some under a foreign valuation, others under a valuation at home,—and others, or all, under that legislative preëstablishment of value which the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. Simmons] proposes to substitute for fraudulent or mistaken estimates of actual and changeable value made abroad or at home.”
“Its lofty assertions that it came down from heaven as a religion of peace—of peace to the individual heart of man, as reconciling it with God, and instilling the serene hope⟳ of another life—of peace which should incorporate mankind in one harmonious brotherhood, the type⟳ and preëstablishment of the sorrowless and strifeless state of beatitude—might appear⟳ utterly belied by the claims of conflicting doctrines on the belief, all declared to be essential to salvation, and the animosities and bloody quarrels which desolated Christian cities.”
“The force⟳ of such comparison, it must be observable, lies not so much in the number⟳ of anomalies presented in delinquents as compared with normals ad libitum, as in the preëstablishment of a fixed basis for the comparison in the normals themselves.”
“The problem is but referred back to an unintelligible preëstablishment of the world-order.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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