antedating
noun 2
Definitions
noun
1
The action of marking with an earlier date.
2
An earlier citation of a lexical item.
The new edition of the dictionary contains several antedatings.
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.
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