antedating
English
Noun
antedating (plural antedatings)
- The action of marking with an earlier date.
- (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.
Translations
the action of marking with an earlier date
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