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Meanings of precedency in inglês

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Preceding in time.

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    Usage of precedency in inglês
    1
    There is no precedency in a French assembly except amongst the Military.
    Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Province...
    2
    In that of the Royalists, they dispute for precedency, and amuse themselves.
    Cinq Mars — Volume 6
    3
    None jostle with him for the wall, or pick quarrels for precedency.
    The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 / Elia and The Las...
    4
    In a review of Italian literature, Dante has a double claim to precedency.
    Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1
    5
    He speaks most of the precedency of age, and protests fortune the greatest virtue.
    Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
    6
    These are the methods that would give the village paint-grinder precedency above genius itself.
    The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Serv...
    7
    Crillon, disregarding all precedency, sprang from his table and hurried first to the threshold.
    A Gentleman of France: Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne Sieu...
    8
    There was no disputing a precedency which he had risen from his death-bed to vindicate.
    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 21: 1573-74
    9
    All nations and religions have precedency, in the royal favor, over the children of the Patriarchs.
    The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale
    10
    Being commissioned on the same day as colonels of the new regiments, they quarrelled about precedency.
    The Life of Francis Marion
    11
    This produced a universal uproar-eachfighting for precedency, and thoroughly determined not to be the last.
    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1
    12
    We will not take upon ourselves the invidious office of settling precedency between two such writers.
    Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13: Great Writers / Dr Lord's U...
    13
    He was treated as an officer of the highest rank, and awarded the first place in precedency.
    Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
    14
    The order of precedency in Caroline's confidential communications was approved of even by all the parties concerned.
    Tales and Novels — Volume 08
    15
    Respecting ceremonies and ordinances, the kingdom of love must have the precedency and govern, and not tyranny.
    Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther
    16
    And if he were, where are the Scripture proofs that he had precedency over the other apostles?
    Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04: Imperial Antiquity
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