antedating

English

Verb

antedating

1. present participle and gerund 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^[1], 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

• Portuguese: pré-datação f, antedatação f

Anagrams

• tangdanite