antecedence

American  

[an-tuh-seed-ns] / ˌæn təˈsid ns /

noun

1. the act of going before; precedence.

2. priority.

3. Astronomy. (of a planet) apparent retrograde motion.

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antecedence British  

/ ˌæntɪˈsiːdəns /

noun

1. precedence; priority

2. astronomy retrograde motion

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Etymology

Origin of antecedence

First recorded in 1525–35; antecede + -ence

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

antecedence

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 William Thomas Thornton

Moreover, it must be observed that, although the participle "predestinated," just as this participle "made," implies antecedence, yet there is a difference.

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

There would be few instances in his limited experience more marked of invariable antecedence and consequence than this,—that the muscular sensation would sooner or later be followed by a tactual one.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various