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- anterior
- past
- precedent
- former
- preliminary
- earlier
- foregoing
- preceding
- previous
- precursory
antecedent 的 2 个定义
- preceding; prior: an antecedent event.
- a preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon, etc.
- antecedents, ancestors. the history, events, characteristics, etc., of one's earlier life: Little is known about his birth and antecedents.
- Grammar. a word, phrase, or clause, usually a substantive, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, or occasionally earlier, in the same or in another, usually subsequent, sentence. In Jane lost a glove and she can't find it, Jane is the antecedent of she and glove is the antecedent of it.
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antecedent 近义词
prior
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- Powers’s thoroughly modern fable of environmental mourning hardly needs to dredge up that cringeworthy antecedent.
- I’ve lived hereabout all my life but, for most of that time, it would be fair to say that I’ve never concerned myself with the tribulations of long-dead antecedents.
- Much like the blood-drinking, Satan-worshipping, pedophilic cabal of QAnon’s theories, the Prokopian antecedent demonstrates a mixing of political critique with the supernatural and the erotic.
- Even online chat rooms have an antecedent in the exchanges of nineteenth-century American telegraph operators.
- If the riots have any comparable antecedent, it's the violence that took over French towns and cities in the fall of 2005.
- The nature both of this substance and the antecedent substance from which it is derived is not known.
- Spencer tells us that it is 'absolutely antecedent to all relative experience whatever.'
- In this line and the next the attributive clauses are separated from the antecedent: see note, l. 2.
- Law and antecedent necessity to Mr. Mill are one and the same.
- To a scientist there is nothing more in it than antecedent and consequent.