come before

Verb

Meaning

be the predecessor of

Source: WordNet

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Examples

When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner. Karl Barth

I maintain that attitudes do really precede propositions, feelings come before facts. Marvin Minsky

Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before. Richard Serra

Comfort is not known if poverty does not come before it. Irish Proverb

Sense doesn't come before age. Irish Proverb

Reason does not come before years. German Proverb

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