All 3 Uses of
antecedent
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Moreover, by chance or by devilry, the ministrant was antecedently made interesting by being a handsome stranger who had evidently seen better days.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- He found her in an unusual mood: her eyes as she looked up to him were suspicious and perplexed as with some antecedent thought.†
Chpt 40-42
- To curse his miserable lot was at first his impulse, but even that lowest stage of rebellion needed an activity whose absence was necessarily antecedent to the existence of the morbid misery which wrung him.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(antecedent) something that happened previous to something else; or anything that precedes something