Literary notes about preceding (AI summary)
The word "preceding" functions as a cohesive referent that links current discourse to what has come before, whether in narrative sequence, argument structure, or even in grammatical construction. In literature, it is used to situate events or descriptions in their proper chronological or logical context, as seen when past struggles are recalled before a culmination [1] or when earlier activities set the stage for subsequent analysis and reflection [2, 3]. It also operates within genealogical and descriptive details, indicating relationships and prior states, such as identifying a character in relation to someone mentioned immediately before [4, 5]. In academic and technical discussions, the term helps clarify continuity by referencing previous statements or sections [6, 7]. Overall, this versatile term acts as a marker that roots new information in its historical, narrative, or logical antecedents [8, 9].
- There are traces of long and fierce struggles preceding this consummation.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway - It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happiness.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill - This is the sum and substance of the readings in the preceding chapter.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - [Cousin Betty.] POPINOT (Madame Anselme), wife of the preceding, born Cesarine Birotteau, in 1801.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Cerfberr and Christophe - Prince William Henry, who had come out to the West Indies the preceding winter, being present, by his own desire, to give away the bride.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey - Preceding the passage that has just been quoted, Aristotle enumerates all the virtues in order to explain them individually.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer - We had better confine ourselves to the three general propositions of the preceding section.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson - The sound of steps in the hall, and of the butler's voice preceding them, poured fresh energy into her veins.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton - But evidently the genus was of much earlier date, long preceding the introduction of Islam.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa Rusticiano
