Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Immediately preceding death.

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  • adjective Before the start of life.

Etymologies

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pre- +‎ mortal

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Examples

  • Perhaps we might have even agreed, in some premortal state, to the experiences and trials we face.

    Richard Paul Evans Ebook Christmas Set Richard Paul Evans 2009

  • Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose….

    There but for the Grace of God…? | Mind on Fire 2006

  • For our bedtime story a couple of nights ago, I told the kids the story of the premortal life, and the war in heaven, and Adam and Eve.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Becca 2006

  • For our bedtime story a couple of nights ago, I told the kids the story of the premortal life, and the war in heaven, and Adam and Eve.

    Funny kid perceptions Becca 2006

  • I was attending a student ward at BYUa congregation made of entirely of eighteen- to thirty-year-olds, not all of them college students, but all looking for that certain special someone, that magic mate, that bright twin spirit from our premortal existence whose eyes you would meet with a shock of recognition, and you both would know you had found your foreordained eternal companion at last.

    The Curse of Michael Myers shunn 2000

  • I was attending a student ward at BYUa congregation made of entirely of eighteen- to thirty-year-olds, not all of them college students, but all looking for that certain special someone, that magic mate, that bright twin spirit from our premortal existence whose eyes you would meet with a shock of recognition, and you both would know you had found your foreordained eternal companion at last.

    The Curse of Michael Myers shunn 2000

  • Will they really be burdened by this premortal madness that manifested itself in Bosnia, or in the little village of Rwanda, where 700,000 people at least were hacked to death in a hundred days -- in a country not a colonial creation, those people had been living together for 500 hundred years.

    Remarks Of The President At Dnc Lunch ITY National Archives 1999

  • (Also, it makes the first [presumably Jesus] sound qualitatively different than us.) (Abraham does imply that the host of heaven were humans in a premortal state; doesn't come out and say it expressly, because rulers could be godly rulers, but that fact that Abraham was one of those strongly implies that the host of heaven was us.)

    By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog J. Nelson-Seawright 2010

  • There are not many scriptures that teach specifically about these events and there are very few details about what our premortal life is like.

    Feast upon the Word Blog NathanG 2010

  • This order follows the Abraham text fairly well, which is more detailed on events of the premortal life than the Moses narrative.

    Feast upon the Word Blog NathanG 2010

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