Antecedents Synonyms

Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. roots
  2. forefathers
  3. predecessors
  4. progenitors
  5. ascendants
  6. parents
  7. mothers
  8. ancestors
  9. forebears
  10. fathers
Anything that precedes something similar in time
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. predecessors
  2. causes
  3. precursors
  4. forerunners
  5. reasons
  6. progenitors
  7. pasts
  8. line
  9. ancestors
  10. bloods
That which produces an effect
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. occasions
  2. causes
A preceding occurrence, cause, or event.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. causes

Antecedents Sentence Examples

  • Hence the chronicler makes no secret of his antecedents, nor did they interfere with his career.

  • We see how different this metaphysical conception is from that scientific notion of cosmic evolution in which the lower stages are the antecedents and conditions of the higher.

  • Whately defined it as "a conditional syllogism with two or more antecedents in the major and a disjunctive minor."

  • Many of his complaints of the system were certainly just; but it may be doubted whether any university system would have been profitable to him, considering his antecedents.

  • As a general rule, no man can be completely dissevered from his national antecedents and 1 See Diihring, Kritische Ges.

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