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

We might wish, perhaps, to consider as characteristic of this absolute antecedence the establishment of the authority without which teaching, properly so called, cannot begin.

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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