antecedence
Example Sentences
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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
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
We formulate the laws of evolution in terms of antecedence and sequence; we also refer these laws to an underlying cause, the noumenal mode of action of which is inexplicable.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
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 Aquinas Thomas
