Meanings of social precedence in English

The wife of any official is entitled to the same social precedence as her husband.

His principal rewards are the social precedence and deference accorded him and the satisfaction found in the exercise of authority.

Madly in love, religiously mad, patriotically insane, and idiotic on the subject of clothes, blood, social precedence, handsome persons, money?

I propose later on establishing an order something like the Golden Fleece, which shall confer a certain social precedence upon the wearers.

An hundred years of political, military, legal, and social precedence were the inheritance of the men chief in the cabinet, the council, and the camp.

'You imagine that social precedence makes all that difference in women?'

" Social precedence silly rot!"