Hypertext Webster Gateway: "anteriority"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Anteriority \An*te`ri*or"i*ty\, n. [LL. anterioritas.]
The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in
situation; priority. --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
anteriority
n 1: the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward
the head [ant: {posteriority}]
2: preceding in time [syn: {priority}, {antecedence}, {antecedency},
{precedence}, {precedency}] [ant: {posteriority}]
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