With previous, you first see that the prefix pre meaning 'before.' The second part of the word, vius, — think via — means 'road,' so you’re talking about the road, or thing, before.
Sentence Examples. The night was dark but starry, the road showed black in the snow that had fallen the previous day-the day of the battle. She paused in the hallway to gaze at a picture of Jonny and her from the previous summer. Confirmed previous enactments against unlawful games. Nothing remained of the previous day's thoughts. On the previous Sunday the old count had given his son two thousand rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money difficulties had told Nicholas that this was all he could let him have till May, and asked him to be more economical this time.
These were all the modifications he had to make in his previous statements. I suppose they do not know that you were—that you have had any previous hospital experience. Palmer had the car out—had, indeed, not been home since the morning of the previous day. Schwitter had taken in five hundred dollars the previous day.
Updated editions will replace the previous one-the old editions will be renamed. On the previous day there was the first rehearsal of Handel's Admeto.
'My poor, dear child,' she whispered, as she had done the previous evening in church. The previous evening she believed in something, but that had now passed. The experience of the previous night taught Marian that Linda had arrived. But he did not say that she had tried to draw it the day previous.