antemundane

English

Alternative forms

  • ante-mundane

Etymology

From ante- +‎ mundane.

Adjective

antemundane (not comparable)

  1. Being or occurring prior to the creation of the world.
    • 1887, Thomas Hardy, chapter 3, in The Woodlanders, volume I, page 31:
      The night in all its fulness met her flatly on the threshold, like the very brink of an absolute void, or the ante-mundane Ginnung-Gap believed in by her Teuton forefathers.
    • 1933, Clark Ashton Smith, Ubbo-Sathla:
      Again he became the sorcerer Zon Mezzamalech in Mhu Thulan; again he dreamt to retrieve the wisdom of the antemundane gods […]
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