antecedence

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The relationship of preceding something in time or order.

   “[…] your […] darke argument […] is this breifly in fewe wordes. The office […] of charite is to geue life ergo charitie iustifieth. […] But what and if I denye your antecedence, and proue it by scripture, that faith and not loue is the lyfe of the iustified.”

2. isim That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry).

   “The literature on the French Revolution and its antecedence is vast.”

3. isim The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another.

   “1851, John Richardson, Arctic Searching Expedition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume 2, Appendix, No. 2, pp. 239-240, The average antecedence of spring phenomena at Carlton House to their occurrence at Cumberland House is between a fortnight and three weeks.”

4. isim The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent.

   “The pronouns who and which and what, used interrogatively, […] may refer to a word or to words in the answer to a question, but their antecedence may be indefinite or unrevealed, even after the answer is given.”

5. isim A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them.
6. isim An apparent motion of a planet toward the west.