antecedence

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antecedence

/ænˈtɛsɪdəns/

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From Latin antecēdentia from Latin antecēdēns (“preceding”), from antecēdō (“go before”).

noun antecedences

countable, uncountable The relationship of preceding something in time or order. […] your […] darke argument […] is this breifly in fewe wordes. The office […] of charite is to geue life ergo charitie iustifieth. […] But what and if I denye your antecedence, and proue it by scripture, that faith and not loue is the lyfe of the iustified.
Similar: precedence, priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority · Opposite: subsequence, posteriority, posteriorness, succession
countable, uncountable That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry). […] it is pleasantly notable […] with what desperate intensity, vigilance, and fierceness Madame watches over all his interests, and liabilities, and casualties great and small, leaping with her whole force into M. de Voltaire’s scale of the balance, careless of antecedences and consequences alike;
countable, uncountable The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another. 1851, John Richardson, Arctic Searching Expedition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume 2, Appendix, No. 2, pp. 239-240, The average antecedence of spring phenomena at Carlton House to their occurrence at Cumberland House is between a fortnight and three weeks.
countable, uncountable The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent. Sometimes this defect amounts to a blundering obliviousness of all antecedence. The following tearful reproof was given by a judge of the State of New York to a prisoner just convicted: “[…] nature has endowed you with a good education and respectable family connections, instead of which you go arou
countable, uncountable A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them. 2005, Wallace R. Hansen, The Geologic Story of the Uinta Mountains, Guilford, CT: Falcon, 2nd ed., p. 26, Speculation as to how the Green River established its course across the Uinta Mountains led Powell to introduce such terms as “superposition” and “antecedence” to identify processes by which str
countable, obsolete, uncountable An apparent motion of a planet toward the west.
Similar: retrogradation

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noun

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noun act of preceding

Português	antecedência
Français	antécédence
Italiano	antecedenza, anteriorità

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@misc{antecedence_2026,
  title = {antecedence},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/antecedence},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}