historical precedent in English

event which occurred in the past and became an example for a later event

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1. There's no historical precedent.

2. The Constrained vision’s central principle is evolution (Sowell 2007, 72) but an evolution guided by historical precedent, tradition, and fallibility

3. Butted mail has limited historical precedent but is fine for general costuming and roleplaying where strict construction authenticity is not a requirement

4. Babur’s honest and intimate chronicle is the first autobiography in Islamic literature, written at a time when there was no historical precedent for a personal narrative—now in a sparkling new translation by Islamic scholar Wheeler Thackston

5. The sexually explicit nature of these texts—which invite readers to participate in the pleasurable castigation of whores—is without historical precedent: not only do they present readers with the traditional Renaissance neo-classical Aretinian “postures,” they assail them with detailed surveys of the rotting bodies of pox-stricken