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

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

Four years ago, I wrote thus: 'Do states of consciousness enter as links into the chain of antecedence and sequence, which gives rise to bodily actions?

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

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