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 fact the antecedence must not only be unconditionally invariable, but must also be immediate.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

Secondly, it may be referred to the very nature of the action itself: that is, forasmuch as predestination implies antecedence and gratuitous effect.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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