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Definition of Antecedences
1. antecedence [n] - See also: antecedence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antecedences
Literary usage of Antecedences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1895)
"... are simply the antecedences of thought to language, and the adjustment of
these objects of nature—art employments—in a logical or natural way, ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"... energy of mind and energy of body, are phrases to which the corresponding
realities are just these antecedences, plus an indefinite expectation of ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1899)
"... begging thinkers in general and physicists in particular to distinguish
carefully between the antecedences and sequences of scientific interpretation ..."
4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"... careless of ' antecedences and consequences alike; flying, with the spirit of
an angry ' brood-hen, at the face of mastiffs, in defence of any feather ..."
5. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... leaping with her whole force into "M. de Voltaire's scale of the balance,
careless of antecedences and consequences alike; flying, with the spirit of an ..."
6. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... leaping with her whole force into M. de Voltaire's scale of the balance,
careless of antecedences and consequences alike ; flying, with the spirit of an ..."
7. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong, Roul Tunley (1883)
"... founder to denote the strict confinement of speculation and the rigorous
limitation of knowledge to observed facts, and to their habitual antecedences, ..."
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