prereligious
English
Etymology
pre- + religious
Adjective
prereligious (not comparable)
- Before the existence of religion.
- 1870, E. B. Tylor, The Philosophy of Religion (in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 2, page 370)
- 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)