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A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice in life. And those things... they are rooted to the role of the man.
Vincent Nichols

Meaning of "antecedents" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTECEDENTS

antecedents  [ˌæntɪˈsiːdənts] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTECEDENTS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Antecedents is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANTECEDENTS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Antecedent

An antecedent is a preceding event, condition, cause, phrase, or word. ▪ Antecedent moisture, a hydrologic term describing the relative wetness condition of a catchment. ▪ Antecedent, the first half of a hypothetical proposition. ▪ Antecedent, the stimulus that occurs before a trained behavior. ▪ Antecedent, the noun phrase to which an anaphor refers. ▪ A musical phrase may be an antecedent or consequent phrase. ▪ Antecedent, antonym of descendant, genealogical predecessor in family line. ▪ Antecedent, in criminology, the life history and previous convictions of a defendant.

Definition of antecedents in the English dictionary

The definition of antecedents in the dictionary is ancestry. Other definition of antecedents is a person's past history.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTECEDENTS


accouterments
əˈkuːtərmənts
accoutrements
əˈkuːtrəmənts
acknowledgements
ækˈnɒlɪdʒmənts
acknowledgments
ækˈnɒlɪdʒmənts
apartments
əˈpɑːtmənts
armaments
ˈɑːməmənts
arrangements
əˈreɪndʒmənts
co-respondents
ˌkəʊrɪsˈpɒndənts
elephants
ˈɛlɪfənts
endowments
ɪnˈdaʊmənts
infants
ˈɪnfənts
movements
ˈmuːvmənts
presents
ˈprɛzənts
reinforcements
ˌriːɪnˈfɔːsmənts
rudiments
ˈruːdɪmənts
sentiments
ˈsɛntɪmənts

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTECEDENTS

ante
ante meridiem
ante-mortem
ante-post
anteater
antebellum
antecede
antecedence
antecedent
antecedently
antecessor
antechamber
antechapel
antechoir
antedate
antediluvial
antediluvially
antediluvian
antefix
antefixa

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTECEDENTS

balance of payments
Bank for International Settlements
biological parents
board of regents
chapter of accidents
compliments
contents
entrance requirements
entry requirements
ents
gents
home improvements
Lents
measurements
outer garments
system requirements
Ten Commandments
The Arabian Nights´ Entertainments
the Ten Commandments
welfare payments

Synonyms and antonyms of antecedents in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ANTECEDENTS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «antecedents» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of antecedents

Translation of «antecedents» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTECEDENTS

Find out the translation of antecedents to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of antecedents from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «antecedents» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

来路
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antecedentes
570 millions of speakers

English

antecedents
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पूर्ववृत्त
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السوابق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прошлое
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

antecedentes
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পরিচয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

antécédents
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antecedents
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vorfahren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

先例
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

선행
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antecedents
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiền đề
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முன்நிகழ்வுகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पूर्वीचे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

geçmiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

antenati
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poprzednicy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

минуле
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

antecedente
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προηγούμενα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voorlopers
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

föregåenden
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forløpere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of antecedents

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTECEDENTS»

The term «antecedents» is quite widely used and occupies the 49.097 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTECEDENTS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «antecedents» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «antecedents» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about antecedents

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3 QUOTES WITH «ANTECEDENTS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word antecedents.
1
Paul Di Filippo
The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
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Vincent Nichols
A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice in life. And those things... they are rooted to the role of the man.
3
Richard Rhodes
Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea... Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that's interesting.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTECEDENTS»

Discover the use of antecedents in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antecedents and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality
Childhood Antecedents of Multiple Personality Disorder includes topics such as the effect of child abuse on the psyche, the development of multiple personality disorder: predisposing, precipitating, and perpetuating factors, and the ...
Richard P. Kluft, 1985
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Antecedents to Modern Rwanda: The Nyiginya Kingdom
Jan Vansina provides a critique of the history recorded by early missionaries and court historians and provides a bottom-up view, drawing on hundreds of grassroots narratives.
Jan Vansina, 2005
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Saxon and Medieval Antecedents of the English Common Law
This volume provides an interdisciplinary approach to legal history, utilizing law, linguistics, cultural anthropology, and social history to document and analyze the slow but steady growth of the English Common Law from Anglo-Saxon times ...
Kurt von S. Kynell, 2000
4
Queer Italy: Contexts, Antecedents and Representation
Accessible and comprehensive, this is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses on Italian culture, cultural studies and film studies.
Miguel Andrés Malagreca, 2007
5
Educational environments: evaluation, antecedents, and ...
Educational Environments considers the major thrusts of research over the last two decades with a general overview and a look at particular research programmes and specific research studies.
Barry J. Fraser, Herbert J. Walberg, 1991
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The Hsi-yu Chi: A Study of Antecedents to the ...
Dr Dudbridge provides a very thorough survey of present knowledge about the whole topic and discusses critically a good deal of theorising about it. This is a study for experts.
Glen Dudbridge, 1970
7
Empathy in Patient Care: Antecedents, Development, ...
This book will be important for any serious student of empathy, including medical educators who are seeking to truly transform professional training.
Mohammadreza Hojat, 2007
8
Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)
Mira Ariel. Marker (e.g. the Italian AGR). We should therefore expect that though languages may differ as to how 'liberal' they are with their zero subjects (there can be languages with a rich inflectional system - German and French, for example ...
Mira Ariel, 2014
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The Antecedents of Antichrist: A Traditio-Historical Study ...
This monograph discusses the rich variety of early Christian speculations on eschatological opponents as well as the Jewish roots of these speculations, showing both the continuity and the discontinuity between early Christianity and ...
L. J. Lietaert Peerbolte, 1996
10
Theme Park Landscapes: Antecedents and Variations
Theme parks, their history and reception, are the topic of this collection of twelve essays.
Terence G. Young, Robert B. Riley, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTECEDENTS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term antecedents is used in the context of the following news items.
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“No one is making them stop”: Why corporations outsource …
... United era of corporations and the super rich controlling our political process, we have to look at the antecedents to this situation. A big part of ... «Salon, Jul 15»
2
Court list: A compilation of offences from Kingston's Ontario Court of …
Defence lawyer Simon Borys, in urging weekend sentencing, told Justice Larry O'Brien that his client, whose antecedents are Mohawk and ... «The Kingston Whig-Standard, Jul 15»
3
Man faces jail for assault and knife incident
... July 27., but Judge Peter Henry told him: “Because of your antecedents and the nature of this case, a lengthy custodial sentence in inevitable. «Daily Echo, Jul 15»
4
Bouchra Jarrar interview: The French designer breathing new life …
Those are some high-level antecedents. When Lacroix opened his house in 1987, it was the first new French haute couture house to launch ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
5
Investigation - Nigeria Loses N700 Billion to Tourism Annually
"From antecedents, Duke did not have the political will to implement the master plan and, in requesting the N25 billion, what did he contribute to ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
6
All About Relative Pronouns and Portmanteau Words
The rule is relative pronouns take the person of their antecedents. In the sentences above, “I” is the antecedent of the relative pronoun “who”. «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
7
The Greek tragedy through the Ages
A look at historical antecedents of Greece and the European project as a whole reveals that Greece has not had a very good record of public ... «Businessinsider India, Jul 15»
8
For Aisha Buhari, An Agenda
A critical look at some of her credentials and antecedents reveal a woman who has equipped herself to support her husband adequately and ... «Leadership Newspapers, Jul 15»
9
Speaker Yakubu Dogara's "God", the Sultan and "Others"
... of the Buhari presidency and the induced crisis in APC's Eighth National Assembly, given the benefit of historical antecedents and hindsight, ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
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4 held for looting judge's house
"The four have criminal antecedents and were involved in a series of loot cases in Jagatsinghpur and Jajpur districts," SP (Jagatsinghpur) ... «Times of India, Jul 15»

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