protomodern

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English

Etymology

From proto- +‎ modern.

Adjective

protomodern (comparative more protomodern, superlative most protomodern)

  1. Of an earlier style approaching what is now modern.
    Robert Mallet's protomodern seismology in the mid-19th century CE
    • 2008 June 6, Roberta Smith, “Aristocracy of Talent for an Egalitarian Art”, in New York Times:
      Fenton, for example, veers from Victorian to protomodern.