antedating

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noun

The action of marking with an earlier date.

“The new edition of the dictionary contains several antedatings.”

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of antedate
nounantedating (plural antedatings)

plural antedatings

  1. The action of marking with an earlier date.
  2. human sciencesAn earlier citation of a lexical item.

    The new edition of the dictionary contains several antedatings.

    1 more example

    Had I access to large databases of scanned-in newspapers from the Philippines, or Africa, or India, etc., we would expect to see a good percentage of antedatings of the current earliest instances.

    2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 14

Translations

Portuguese pré-datação, antedatação
  • pré-dataçãothe action of marking with an earlier date
  • antedataçãothe action of marking with an earlier date

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

antedating. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antedating

MLA

“antedating.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antedating. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antedating,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antedating.

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