preapprehension
English
Etymology
From pre- + apprehension.
Noun
preapprehension (plural preapprehensions)
- An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- shapes conformable to preapprehensions
References
- “preapprehension”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.