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
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
In the first place there is the idea of an object; and secondly, there is the idea of the relation of antecedence between that object and some present objects.
From Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley
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