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Definition of Previousness
1. n. The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
Definition of Previousness
1. Noun. The quality of being previous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Previousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Previousness
Literary usage of Previousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Every where by Will Carleton (1907)
"SLEUTHS' "Previousness." * WO women, mother and daughter, were journeying toward
New York, in a sleeping-car. As the train neared Rochester, ..."
2. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1880)
"This is the cause of prolapse, I believe, in the rare cases of previousness of
a detached and then prolapsed placenta; and it has certainly been so in most ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1891)
"Secondary memory has an additional consciousness of previousness added to knowledge.
There is no revival of an image, but there is a " second event, ..."
4. Poems by Edward Sandford Martin (1914)
"... With mad, spasmodic previousness, he pops. Poor, dizzy fool; instead of winning
more He only loses what he had before. ..."
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