Word: antedating
To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time.
To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date; to backdate.
To find earlier citational evidence for a term.
The action of marking with an earlier date.
An earlier citation of a lexical item. Example: The new edition of the dictionary contains several antedatings.
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