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 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 Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)

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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor