antecedence
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The literature for the metaverse in its antecedence is dystopic.
From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2022
For your own guidance, as to His Imperial Majesty's antecedence, I am enclosing herein a copy of His Biography.
From Time Magazine Archive
One on the part of eternal predestination itself: and in this respect it implies a certain antecedence in regard to that which comes under predestination.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Nor is it more to the purpose to undertake a subtle analysis of the nature of causation, and to explain that it does not, properly speaking, involve compulsion, but simply means invariable antecedence.
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton
These have argued, that if cause be nothing more than invariable antecedence, then night may be said to be the cause of day, for the one invariably precedes the other.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various
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