anterior
adjective
situated before or at the front of; fore (opposed to posterior).
anteriority
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a word derived from
anterior.
Example Sentences
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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 Henry Nelson Coleridge
We should here draw a distinction between the two senses of the a priori: anteriority and superiority.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
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 E.M. Huggard
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 Gustave Flaubert
Priority -- N. priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence, pre-existence; precession &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
