Antecedent example sentences

Related (9): predecessor, forebear, forerunner, ancestor, former, prior, precursor, source, origin

an·te·ced·ent

noun

antecedent (noun) · antecedents (plural noun)

  - a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another:

  - a person's ancestors or family and social background:

  - a word, phrase, clause, or sentence to which another word (especially a following relative pronoun) refers.

  - the statement contained in the “if” clause of a conditional proposition.

  - the first term in a ratio.

  - preceding in time or order; previous or preexisting:

  - denoting a grammatical antecedent.

Synonyms

precursor, forerunner, predecessor, ancestor, forefather, forebear, predecessor, progenitor, family, stock, ancestry, descent, genealogy, roots, extraction, birth, history, past, background, record, filiation, descendant, previous, earlier, prior, foregoing, preceding, precursory, preexisting, anterior, later, subsequent, Wikipedia, Legal

"Antecedent" Example Sentences


1. The behavior could be traced back to his troubled childhood antecedents.
2. The family's lowly social antecedents posed no barrier to their success.
3. His current success belies his modest financial antecedents.
4. Despite his humble family antecedents, he achieved great wealth and prominence.
5. The party's political antecedents date back to the 19th century.
6. His literary antecedents were Shakespeare and the Romantic poets.
7. The town's colorful history belies its drab industrial antecedents.
8. The causes can be traced to historical and political antecedents.
9. The style drew inspiration from earlier musical antecedents.
10. The style had clear architectural antecedents from ancient Greece.
11. The ancient buildings trace their architectural antecedents to Greece and Rome.
12. The design has clear historical antecedents in Art Nouveau.
13. The political ideology had its philosophical antecedents in Marxism.
14. The tradition has historical antecedents dating back millennia.
15. The rebellion had ideological antecedents in earlier uprisings.
16. The moral code has clear antecedents in ancient philosophy.
17. Her independent spirit had its familial antecedents.
18. The event had political antecedents that stretched back decades.
19. The movement drew inspiration from historical antecedents.
20. The custom has religious antecedents dating back centuries.
21. Her interest in gardening had firm familial antecedents.
22. The problems can be traced back to historical and political antecedents.
23. The debate has philosophical antecedents dating back to antiquity.
24. The temple's architectural style has clear historical antecedents.
25. The term has linguistic antecedents dating back millennia.
26. The findings shed new light on historical antecedents.
27. The fashion trend has clear historical antecedents.
28. The scientific theory had geological antecedents.
29. The practice has religious antecedents in medieval traditions.
30. Her independent spirit had firm ideological antecedents from earlier generations.
31. The concept has antecedents in ancient philosophical movements.
32. The pronoun lacked a clear linguistic antecedent in the text.
33. The antecedent of the pronoun was ambiguous.
34. The work lacked clear literary antecedents.
35. The style had no clear artistic antecedents.
36. His behavior had clear psychological antecedents from early childhood.
37. The solution has clear mathematical antecedents.
38. The legal code has historical antecedents dating back centuries.
39. The idea had ideological antecedents in earlier philosophical movements.
40. The tradition has religious antecedents dating back millennia.
41. The scientific theory had geological and biological antecedents.
42. The word has linguistic antecedents dating back to the Latin language.
43. Her actions had political antecedents from earlier protest movements.
44. The policy had economic antecedents in earlier proposals.
45. The tradition has historical antecedents dating back to ancient times.
46. The findings shed light on the cultural antecedents of the tradition.
47. The antecedent of the pronoun could not be found in the previous sentences.
48. The rebellion had antecedents in earlier protests against imperial rule.
49. The revolution had ideological antecedents in Enlightenment philosophy.
50. The style had clear artistic antecedents in earlier movements.

Common Phases


1. trace back to antecedents
2. have antecedents in
3. draw inspiration from antecedents
4. can be traced to antecedents
5. have antecedents dating back to
6. have clear antecedents
7. have firm antecedents
8. lack antecedents
9. rooted in antecedents
10. built upon antecedents
11. stemmed from antecedents
12. derived from antecedents
13. trace its origins to antecedents
14. be the antecedent of
15. provide the antecedent for
16. establish an antecedent
17. refer to an unclear antecedent
18. lack an antecedent
19. linguistic antecedent
20. historical antecedent

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