How do you use Premodern in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Premodern in a sentence
Premodern meaning
Preceding or predating the modern era.
Using Premodern
- The main meaning on this page is: Preceding or predating the modern era.
- In the example corpus, premodern often appears in combinations such as: premodern japan, the premodern.
Context around Premodern
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Premodern
- In this selection, "premodern" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, reasserting, seem, rare, japan, claims and world stand out and add context to how "premodern" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a rare premodern example of and arabic while premodern hebrew is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "premodern" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with premodern
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture. (11 words)
Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine. (14 words)
LAX’s poor road access, traffic, uncleanness, crowds, and chaos seem premodern compared with the current Athenian airport. (18 words)
Gropius' neologism Bauhaus references both building and the Bauhütte, a premodern guild of stonemasons. citation The early intention was for the Bauhaus to be a combined architecture school, crafts school, and academy of the arts. (35 words)
Mulan's Legend and Legacy in China and the United States (Temple University Press; 2010) 263 pages; Traces literary and other images of Mulan from premodern China to contemporary China and the United States. (34 words)
Modern Hebrew is one of the two official languages of Israel (the other being Modern Standard Arabic ), while premodern Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jewish communities around the world today. (33 words)
Example sentences (12)
There is already an undercurrent of fear about China taking over economically, or even reasserting premodern claims in the region.
Premodern Japan — and premodernity ran to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when Fukuzawa was 33 — threw people together in ways later concepts of privacy would make impossible.
As I developed my research, I was surprised at the very different way that people experienced the scriptures in the premodern world.
Furthermore, there are often interesting assumptions embedded in the premodern juristic tradition which modern Muslims find themselves out of step with, such as the assumption that women should generally stay at home.
LAX’s poor road access, traffic, uncleanness, crowds, and chaos seem premodern compared with the current Athenian airport.
Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture.
Gropius' neologism Bauhaus references both building and the Bauhütte, a premodern guild of stonemasons. citation The early intention was for the Bauhaus to be a combined architecture school, crafts school, and academy of the arts.
Influential Chinese Legalist philosopher Shen Buhai may be considered valuable as a rare premodern example of abstract theory of administration.
Modern Hebrew is one of the two official languages of Israel (the other being Modern Standard Arabic ), while premodern Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jewish communities around the world today.
Mulan's Legend and Legacy in China and the United States (Temple University Press; 2010) 263 pages; Traces literary and other images of Mulan from premodern China to contemporary China and the United States.
Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine.
Sima, Zhuge, and Ouyang also happen to be the surnames of four extremely famous premodern Chinese historical figures.
Common combinations with premodern
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: