protomodern
adjEtymology From proto- + modern.
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Of an earlier style approaching what is now modern.
- Robert Mallet's protomodern seismology in the mid-19th century CE
- Fenton, for example, veers from Victorian to protomodern.2008 June 6, Roberta Smith, “Aristocracy of Talent for an Egalitarian Art”, in New York Times:
- Related terms
- protomodernism, protomodernity