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

Prē′viousness, antecedence: priority in time.—Previous question, a motion made during a debate, 'that the main question be now put.'

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Natural ability is the fixed and constituted antecedence itself.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip

Secondly, it may be referred to the very nature of the action itself: that is, forasmuch as predestination implies antecedence and gratuitous effect.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint