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