Word Meanings - ANTERIORITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.

ANTERIORITY
The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
PRIORITY
1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
ANTECEDENCE
An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation. (more info) 1. The act or state of going before in time; precedence. H. Spenser.
INTRODUCTION
1. The act of introducing, or bringing to notice. 2. The act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another. 3. That part of a book
PREPARATION
The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock.
PRECURSORSHIP
The position or condition of a precursor. Ruskin.
PREMONITION
Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.
IMPREPARATION
Want of preparation. Hooker.
NONPREPARATION
Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.
APRIORITY
The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.