prereflective

adj

prereflective

adj

Etymology From pre- + reflective.

1

Occurring prior to a reflective stage.

The erotics of composition are essential to the process, some prereflective excitation and orientation, some sense that your own little verse-craft can dock safe and sound at the big quay of language.1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxvi:

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