antedating

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of antedate
2. noun The action of marking with an earlier date.
3. noun An earlier citation of a lexical item.

   The new edition of the dictionary contains several antedatings.

Similar words

predate foredate antecede precede forego preceding predating antedation backdate backdating

Often followed by

the by that of his goal it even and all