[f. L. anteriōr-em (see prec.) + -ITY. Cf. Fr. antériorité.] The quality of being anterior, in order of time or progress.
1720. Pope, Iliad, XIX. 93, note (R.). This anteriority of time makes this passage the more observable.
1754. Phil. Trans., XLVIII. 777. It has the anteriority of date with regard to Mr. Melvil’s paper.
1869. Phillips, Vesuv., xii. 335. I was much impressed by … the anteriority of granite to greenstone.
