anteriority

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A simple physical mechanism may be a priori, in the sense of anteriority.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

If in this admirable passage aught else dare be wished otherwise, it is the division and yet confusion of time and eternity, by giving an anteriority to the latter.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

This anteriority of nature is a commonplace in philosophy: thus one says that the decrees of God have an order among themselves.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.

Priority -- N. priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence, pre-existence; precession &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

The ogive is, perhaps, very ancient; and authors dispute as to the anteriority of the Romanesque to the Gothic.

From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave