Antedating
"Antedating" in a Sentence (2 examples)
The new edition of the dictionary contains several antedatings.
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.
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