antecedent

  1. Adjective.  Earlier, either in time or order.
  2. Noun.  Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
  3. Noun.  An ancestor.
  4. Noun.  (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
  5. Noun.  (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition.

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