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Antecedence vs. Antecedents
Antecedence
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The antecedence of the event was a major factor in planning.Historical antecedence often influences current cultural norms.His antecedence in the company gave him an edge in negotiations.
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Antecedents
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The author's past works are the antecedents of this novel.Studying family antecedents can reveal inherited traits.The legal case cited previous rulings as antecedents.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Antecedence is often used to indicate a sense of time or order, as in the coming before something else.
- Antecedents are usually references to prior events, conditions, or individuals.
- Remember that antecede as a root can indicate preceding; antecedents are things that have come before in history or logic.
- The suffixes differ: -ence in antecedence indicates a state or condition; -ents in antecedents indicates plural of something prior.
- Consider antecedence as singular, and antecedents as multiple.
- Antecedence might relate to general precedence, whereas antecedents are specific items or ideas that came before.
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