the act of going before or the fact of being prior; precedence
2. Astronomy
retrograde motion
Word origin
L antecedentia
antecedence in American English
(ˌæntəˈsidns)
noun
1.
the act of going before; precedence
2.
priority
3. Astronomy(of a planet)
apparent retrograde motion
Word origin
[1525–35; antecede + -ence]This word is first recorded in the period 1525–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: battery, evangelical, inflection, secure, shuffle-ence is a suffix used to form nouns either from adjectives in -ent or from verbs. Other words that use the affix -ence include: acquiescence, coherence, diffluence, precedence, sequence
Examples of 'antecedence' in a sentence
antecedence
In addition, the finding shows the relationship between antecedence and audit value added are positive significant.
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