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

In the first place there is the idea of an object; and secondly, there is the idea of the relation of antecedence between that object and some present objects.

From Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Huxley, Thomas Henry

In the third place, the liberty here affirmed belongs equally to every instance of stated antecedence and sequence.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip

All the several classes have peculiar and distinguishing characteristics; but in the relation of antecedence and sequence,—their relation as causes or agents producing effects,—no distinction can be perceived.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip