Home › Words › P › preconformpreconformpreconform means to conform by way of anticipation.EtymologyFrom pre- + conform.verbTo conform by way of anticipation.e.g.“[T]he passions […] are such passions as could not have existed under Paganism, in some respects they condescend and pre-conform to the stage.” — 1847 February, Thomas De Quincey, “Notes on Walter Savage Landor”, in Leaders in Literature with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affecting Them (De Quincey’s Works; IX), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).