antecedence
Example Sentences
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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
I must necessarily set out from the one, to which therefore I give hypothetical antecedence, in order to arrive at the other.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Priority -- N. priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence, pre-existence; precession &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
