Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality or condition of being antecedent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or condition of being antecedent; priority.

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  • noun antecedence

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  • noun preceding in time

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  • It is conception of WHO's dedication to wage evidence-based guidelines to decision makers and a acceptance of the antecedency that should be given to cervical cancer display and treatment as an essential factor of some broad domestic cancer curb programme.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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