antecedence

[ an-tuh-seed-ns ]

noun

1. the act of going before; precedence.
2. priority.
3. Astronomy. (of a planet) apparent retrograde motion.

Word History and Origins

Origin of antecedence¹

First recorded in 1525–35; antecede + -ence

Example Sentences

We may explain why Thrasyllus placed the Kleitophon in immediate antecedence to the Republic: because 1.

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Causation, as Brown had finally proved, means simply antecedence and consequence.

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It is of invariable antecedence that we speak alike in both cases, and of invariable antecedence only.

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Or do 'states of consciousness enter as links into the chain of antecedence and sequence which gives rise to bodily actions?'

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In many ways men have expressed, and will express hereafter, the creative or causal antecedence of the spiritual principle.

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