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
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
It is known as habitual antecedence, and as tendency on our part to look for something definite to come.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
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