antecedency

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Noun1.antecedency - preceding in time
antecedence, anteriority, precedence, precedency, priority
earliness - quality of coming early or earlier in time
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The ambition here is not to quibble over antecedency of the "resistant reader" but rather to confront claims regarding O'Neill's misogyny with evidence of his play's overlapping concerns with feminism.
Frustrated & frustrating lives: women in O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet
That he kept hold of the covenant of grace, and that he framed it after the manner of Arminius, we know because, a little before his death, he reaffirmed the "antecedency of this covenant in Christ to the decrees of election and reprobation" in the purposing mind of God.
Henry Hammond and covenant theology
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