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
If we take any other instance of stated antecedence and sequence, the reasoning is the same.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
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
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
