Occurring before the Renaissance, e.g

Usage examples of premodern.

In addition to exegetical studies on Buddhism and Confucianism, they compiled dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference-type materials that provided the groundwork for nearly all subsequent scholarly activity in premodern Japan.

Rather, the dissociations in the F-5 boundaries of modernity could anchor themselves in the "existential" subphase of F-0 (subphase 2) in a way that would not happen in premodern times because there were no collective F-5 boundaries in premodernity to do the anchoring, even though they went through essentially the same perinatal birth process.