prereligious

adj

adj

Etymology From pre- + religious.

Before the existence of religion.

Here, they will naturally say, are tribes of men who have no religion because their forefathers never had any. They represent a prereligious stage of the human race, above which, in the course of ages, religious stages have risen[…]1870, E. B. Tylor, “The Philosophy of Religion”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 2, page 370:

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