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

Natural ability is the fixed and constituted antecedence itself.

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

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

In both cases we believe that the results are due to the operation of natural laws, that is to say, can, with adequate knowledge, be described in terms of antecedence and sequence.

From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)