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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

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 Saint Thomas Aquinas

One on the part of eternal predestination itself: and in this respect it implies a certain antecedence in regard to that which comes under predestination.

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

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 Henry Philip Tappan


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