pretergeneration
Examples
“In the Novum Organum Bacon made a threefold division of natural history: the first being concerned with species, the second with monsters, and the third with artificial products; or the history of generation, pretergeneration and arts.”
“Because Bacon does not provide⟳ any analysis of pretergenerations in his natural histories, I claim⟳ that the process⟳ of generating artificial individuals that deviate from their species exhibits important aspects of Bacon's view⟳ on how nature is constrained and deviated from its own⟳ course.”
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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