Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An error in chronology consisting in antedating something; the dating of an event before the time when it happened, or the representing of something as existing before it really did.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The dating of an event before the time it happened; an antedating; -- opposed to
metachronism .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An error in
chronological order in which one is ascribed an earlier time.
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Examples
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In his work entitled Omphalos he developed the theory previously urged by Granville Penn, and asserted a new principle called "prochronism."
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896
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