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Preceding in time or order
“Decreasing an undesirable behavior involves eliminating or changing the antecedent event that evoked the behavior.”
Belonging or happening near the beginning of a particular period
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors
A thing that existed before and logically precedes another
“The information society will be established as an antecedent to the knowledge-based society.”
Something that precedes, and is likely the cause of, another thing
“The interwar crisis can properly be regarded as the main antecedent of the war.”
A person's ancestor(s)
“The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company.”
A person's familial or social background
“Nothing was known locally either of his antecedents or of the reasons which had prompted him to come to this Lancashire hamlet.”
The principle on which an idea, activity or process is based on
A healthy and vigorous-rooted plant that is used in grafting, most commonly as a sound base to support a scion that bears desirable fruit in orchard culture
The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes
Protasis or conditional
The origin of something
A supposition made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation
An element or circumstance contributing to a result
One's background or life experience
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