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noun

Precedency, Precedence n.

The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.

The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners. "Which of them (the different desires) has the precedency in determining the will to the next action?"

Synonyms: Antecedence; priority; preeminence; preference; superiority.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Precedence" Quotes from Famous Books

... primitive naturalists. The primitive does indeed put something of historical record and something of his best interpretation of mysterious natural phenomena into his legendary lore, but there is something else, we are led to believe, that takes precedence over all other considerations in the mind of the primitive (as well as in the minds of all of the rest of us) and that is getting on in the world, a ...

— The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi • Hattie Greene Lockett

... of it? For fifteen years there was war and bloodshed between the provinces, and but for the invasion of the Goths, there would be to this day. Matter little, indeed! Why, you foolish youngster, ceremony is everything in life. To understand Precedence aright is to know the secrets of nature. The order of Precedence is the order of Creation. It is, in fact, a very cosmogony. Oh, a ...

— Gycia - A Tragedy in Five Acts • Lewis Morris

... is no longer customary for a couple to enter arm in arm, but for the woman to precede the man. A mother, elder sister, or married woman takes the precedence over a daughter, younger sister, ...

— The Book of Good Manners • W. C. Green

... in their turn a danger by keeping alive mutual distrust, and are, at the same time, the cause of that general economic disturbance which stands in the way of settling in a satisfactory manner the problems of labor and poverty, which ought to take precedence of all others. ...

— The Kingdom of God is within you • Leo Tolstoy

... much more acute when she came to perceive that she had damaged her own affairs by the hint of a menace which she had thrown out. Business is business, and must take precedence of all sentiment and romance in this hard world in which bread is so necessary. Of that Madam Gordeloup was well aware. And therefore, having given herself but two short minutes to weep over her Julie's hardness, ...

— The Claverings • Anthony Trollope

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