Definition of "antecedents" []

• Plural form of antecedent. (noun)

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• "_Subduct from any phenomenon such part as previous inductions have shown to be the effect of certain antecedents, and the residue of the phenomenon is the effect of the remaining antecedents_."
• "But the French naturalist was of very different antecedents from the English surveyor."
• "We now wish to show that in antecedents, education, temperament, and in her writings, she represents the mass of her contemporaries – is a type of her era."