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 Giovanni Gentile
Priority -- N. priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence, pre-existence; precession &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
The only new departure is the aeroplane, for the gas attack is another form of the Chinese stink-pot and our old mystery friend Greek fire may claim antecedence to the Flammenwerfer.
From My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer
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