Ancient and Latter

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Ancient adjective - Dating or surviving from the distant past.

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Latter and ancient are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Latter" instead an adjective "Ancient".

Nearby Word: anciently

Latter adjective - Following all others of the same kind in order or time.

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Ancient and latter are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ancient" instead an adjective "Latter".

Vegeta puts all of his Ki and life energy into defeating the ancient monster Buu, but the latter's Healing Factor is utterly ridiculous, letting him come back from even subatomic particles.

Source: Not Quite Dead
Some well-educated people use postmodernism as synonym of 'deconstruction' even though the latter has been used since ancient times, sometimes to the point of Deconstructor Fleet.

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The former dealt with a recently dead person bonded with an ancient spirit and brought back to life; the latter had (as one character type) a character who would enter a near-death state and become a 'ghost' out of body, gaining strange ghostly powers in the process.

Source: Tabletop Game / Geist: The Sin-Eaters

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