Definition of Previous

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Definition of Previous
	Previous Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. Related Definitions: Antecedent, As, Before, Being, Else, Going, Happening, Illness, In, Or, Previous, Prior, Something, Time

Previous Quotations

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
Karl Marx

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
Aaliyah

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Ulysses S. Grant

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Thomas Sowell

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
Barney Frank

Previous Translations

previous in Danish is forbigangen
previous in Dutch is verleden, voorgaand
previous in German is vorherige, vorhergehend, vor...., vorherigen
previous in Latin is praevius
previous in Portuguese is precedente
previous in Spanish is pasada, previo

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