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

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

It is known as habitual antecedence, and as tendency on our part to look for something definite to come.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

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