| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A closely similar case in existence or in the past: example. See SAME. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Going before: advance, antecedent, anterior, earlier, preceding, previous, prior. See PRECEDE. 2. Just gone by or elapsed: antecedent, anterior, earlier, foregoing, former, past, preceding, previous, prior. See TIME.
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