prior
Definition of abbreviation (noun) -
officer of a monastery; high-ranking member of a religious orderPart of speech:
NounPlural: plural: priors
Example sentences with this word:
She couldn't make the date because she remembered that she had a prior engagement.
Prior to the nineteenth century children were dressed as miniature adults, complete with all the external manifestations of masculinity and femininity; exposed to the social aspects of adult sexuality earlier than modern children, they probably had much less difficulty in coping with their own biological changes.
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