"Sovereign-style battleship" is the preferred term here for ships commonly grouped as pre-dreadnoughts. "Pre-dreadnought" is convenient retrospective terminology, but it can imply that designers knew HMS Dreadnought was coming. The Lord Nelson class exposes the chronological problem because its ships were built alongside Dreadnought and commissioned after her. The terminology distinguishes a modern historian's classification from a contemporary design category.
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Why "pre-dreadnought" is a retrospective label
The "sovereign-style battleship" label avoids classifying ships solely by their relationship to HMS Dreadnought.