What is "prerevolutionary"

Usage examples of "prerevolutionary".

It was the color of happiness and of her memories, and Russia too, in her prerevolutionary virginity, seemed to her to have been the color of lilac.

Fortunately for Foraker, Citizen Commissioner Jourdain's report had also warned Honeker that when she became immersed in a problem, she often backslid into some rather prerevolutionary habits of speech.

Not because Honeker wouldn't understand the appeal was seriously meant, but because the peoples commissioner, like any people's commissioner, came with a preprogrammed rejection of anything that smacked of the old regime's prerevolutionary concepts.

Gateway's one prerevolutionary newspaper, the _Herald_, was now joined by two more Government organs, _Truth_ and _The Home-Word_.

Behind glass hung the covers of the first numbers of prerevolutionary art magazines, such as World of Art, The Golden Fleece and Apollo, and also a cover from the post-revolutionary Lef, together with reproductions of pictures by Malevich, Larionov and Lissitsky.

Robert Rogers against the French and Indians during that period of our prerevolutionary history.