Значения термина preceding description на английском

The preceding description may seem needlessly bloody in its details.

From the preceding description we shall have seen that the future house was to consist merely of a ground-floor.

He was even by the "burr, burr, burr," uncounteracted by any preceding description of the boy's beauty, assisted in recalling them.

But the more limited intention in the preceding description has been to illustrate their unhappiness as inflicted by their depravity, necessarily consequent on their ignorance.