antedating

English

Verb

antedating

  1. present participle of antedate

Noun

antedating (plural antedatings)

  1. The action of marking with an earlier date.
  2. (lexicography) An earlier citation of a lexical item.
    The new edition of the dictionary contains several antedatings.
    • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 14:
      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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