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
As every effect or consequence implies the antecedence of the purpose of an agent, with respect to this consequence we find it stated in Luke viii.
From An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality by James Challis
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 J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
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
