preconform
verbEtymology From pre- + conform.
1
To conform by way of anticipation.
- [T]he passions […] are such passions as could not have existed under Paganism, in some respects they condescend and pre-conform to the stage.1847 February, Thomas De Quincey, “Notes on Walter Savage Landor”, in Leaders in Literature with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affecting Them (De Quincey’s Works; IX), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 327:
- Related terms
- preconformity