"antecedently" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "antecedent + -ly",
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      "form": "more antecedently",
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      "form": "most antecedently",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "afterward"
        },
        {
          "word": "later"
        },
        {
          "word": "subsequently"
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          "ref": "1593, Richard Harvey, Philadelphus, London: John Wolfe",
          "text": "The History of Brute and the Brutans setteth forth. Principally and antecedently their persons, & in them sheweth the geneallogy or issue which they had, artes which they studied, actes which they did.",
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          "ref": "1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, Part 4, pp. 214-215",
          "text": "[…] it does not at all appear, that all Mixtures must be of Elementary Bodies; but it seems farr more probable, that there are divers sorts of compound Bodies, even in regard of all or some of their Ingredients, consider’d Antecedently to their Mixture.",
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          "ref": "1739, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, London: John Noon, Volume 1, Part 2, Section 6, p. 123",
          "text": "[…] nothing is ever present to the mind but perceptions, and […] all ideas are deriv’d from something antecedently present to the mind;",
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        {
          "ref": "1896, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Wessex Tales, New York: Harper, page 4",
          "text": "She had never antecedently regarded this occupation of his as any objection to having him for a husband.",
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          "ref": "2008, Michael Della Rocca, chapter 4, in Spinoza, London: Routledge, page 161",
          "text": "The case of envy just described is one in which we feel joy or sadness at the sadness or joy of one we antecedently hate.",
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        "At an earlier time."
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        {
          "word": "beforehand"
        },
        {
          "word": "earlier"
        },
        {
          "word": "precedently"
        },
        {
          "word": "previously"
        }
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "in an antecedent manner",
          "word": "antaŭe"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "in an antecedent manner",
          "word": "antécédemment"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "in an antecedent manner",
          "word": "antecedentemente"
        }
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  "word": "antecedently"
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      "form": "more antecedently",
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      "form": "most antecedently",
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          "text": "[…] it does not at all appear, that all Mixtures must be of Elementary Bodies; but it seems farr more probable, that there are divers sorts of compound Bodies, even in regard of all or some of their Ingredients, consider’d Antecedently to their Mixture.",
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          "word": "precedently"
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          "word": "previously"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "in an antecedent manner",
      "word": "antaŭe"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "in an antecedent manner",
      "word": "antécédemment"
    },
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in an antecedent manner",
      "word": "antecedentemente"
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  "word": "antecedently"
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