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Definition of Antecedents
1. antecedent [n] - See also: antecedent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antecedents
Literary usage of Antecedents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Institutes of English Grammar, Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown (1861)
"When a Pronoun has two or more antecedents connected by and, it must agree ...
In expressing mat of a pronoun which has antecedents of different genders, ..."
2. The Institutes of English Grammar Methodically Arranged: With Forms of by Goold Brown, Henry Kiddle (1873)
"When a Pronoun lias two or more antecedents connected by and, it must agree ...
When the antecedents are of different persons, the first person is preferred ..."
3. Outlines of Rhetoric: Embodied in Rules, Illustrative Examples, and by John Franklin Genung (1893)
"WORDS WITH antecedents. By these are meant words that refer to something that
goes before and depend on it for their meaning. That something preceding ..."
4. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the by Friedrich Max Müller (1879)
"There is no fetish without its antecedents, and it is in these antecedents alone
that its true and scientific interest consists. antecedents OF FETISHISM. ..."
5. The Reign of Law by George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1873)
"Man is subject to the law of Causation in this sense, "that his volitions are
not self-caused, but determined by spiritual antecedents in such sort that ..."
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