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English
Etymology
From pre- + conform.
Verb
preconform (third-person singular simple present preconforms, present participle preconforming, simple past and past participle preconformed)
- To conform by way of anticipation.
1847 February, Thomas De Quincey, “Notes on Walter Savage Landor”, in Leaders in Literature with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affecting Them (De Quincey’s Works; IX), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 327:[T]he passions […] are such passions as could not have existed under Paganism, in some respects they condescend and pre-conform to the stage.
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