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

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

We might wish, perhaps, to consider as characteristic of this absolute antecedence the establishment of the authority without which teaching, properly so called, cannot begin.

From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni

All the several classes have peculiar and distinguishing characteristics; but in the relation of antecedence and sequence,—their relation as causes or agents producing effects,—no distinction can be perceived.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip