preengagement

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English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ engagement.

Noun

preengagement (plural preengagements)

  1. Prior engagement or obligation, for example by contract or promise.
    • 1650s-1660s', Robert Boyle, Some Specimens of an Attempt to make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy
      My pre-engagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write.
    unchangeable preengagement

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