Usually means: Preceding or existing before something.
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  3. antevenient: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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▸ adjective:  (formal) Coming before; preceding.

Similar:
anterior, prevenient, forecoming, prejacent, precedent, preambulatory, leading, preventive, predecessive, preceding, more...

Opposite:
postvenient, subsequent, following, succeeding

Types:
cause, reason, motive, stimulus, more...

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Similar:
anterior, prevenient, forecoming, prejacent, precedent, preambulatory, leading, preventive, predecessive, preceding, more...

Opposite:
postvenient, subsequent, following, succeeding

Types:
cause, reason, motive, stimulus, more...



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