Usually means: Assigning a date earlier than actual.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word antedating:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. antedating: Merriam-Webster
  2. antedating: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antedating: Collins English Dictionary
  4. antedating: Vocabulary.com
  5. antedating: Wordnik
  6. antedating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. antedating: Wiktionary
  8. Antedating, antedating: Dictionary.com
  9. Antedating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Antedating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Antedating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. antedating: FreeDictionary.org
  13. antedating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. antedating: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (antedating)

▸ noun:  The action of marking with an earlier date.
▸ noun:  (lexicography) An earlier citation of a lexical item.

Similar:
antecede, predate, foredate, forego, precede, antedation, backdating, postdating, pre-date, antedater, more...

Opposite:
postdating, succeeding, following

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Similar:
antecede, predate, foredate, forego, precede, antedation, backdating, postdating, pre-date, antedater, more...

Opposite:
postdating, succeeding, following



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