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English
Etymology
From pre- + nomination.
Adjective
prenomination (not comparable)
- before a nomination
- prenomination speech
- prenomination rumors
Noun
prenomination (plural prenominations)
- The act of prenominating.
- The privilege of being named first.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:Moreover if we concede, that the animals of one Element, might bear the names of those in the other, yet in strict reason the watery productions should have the prenomination: and they of the land rather derive their names, then nominate those of the Sea. That all Animals of the Land, are in their kind in the Sea.
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