preceding
/pɹɪˈsiːdɪŋ/ adjective C1- Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence. · On the preceding Monday Shobana had gone on vacation.
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Enervated, prostrate, and breathless, he became unconscious of outward objects; he seemed to be entering that vague delirium preceding death.
Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantès, father and son, although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.
One could have thought that he was undergoing the agonies preceding death.
They had studied Tennyson’s poem in school the preceding winter, the Superintendent of Education having prescribed it in the English course for the Prince Edward Island schools.
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