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antecedence

[an-tuh-seed-ns] / ˌæn təˈsid ns /


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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

As every effect or consequence implies the antecedence of the purpose of an agent, with respect to this consequence we find it stated in Luke viii.

From An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality by Challis, James

Nor is it more to the purpose to undertake a subtle analysis of the nature of causation, and to explain that it does not, properly speaking, involve compulsion, but simply means invariable antecedence.

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas

And a posteriori, it will be proved by the principle itself when it is discovered, as involving universal antecedence in its very conception.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor