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Precedence   /prˈɛsədəns/   Listen
Precedence

noun
1.
Status established in order of importance or urgency.  Synonyms: precedency, priority.  "National independence takes priority over class struggle"
2.
Preceding in time.  Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedency, priority.
3.
The act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony).  Synonyms: precedency, precession.






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"Precedence" Quotes from Famous Books



... waiting, an orderly procession was formed into the dining-room. The invisible spirit hand which possessed all this power was thrice-holy etiquette; the law which brought order out of confusion, and gave to everyone his place, was that of precedence. Paul and Wilhelm, these strangers to drawing-room customs, were new to the performance. A smile flitted over Wilhelm's face, over Paul's came a reverent expression. What he saw made a distinct impression of wonderment on him. The constraint ceased immediately the guests had ...
— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau

... two "Nests," had not so much more serious matter been in agitation, the precedence of the names might actually have been taken up as a question of moment. I have heard of a lawsuit in France, touching a name that has been illustrious in that country for a period so long as to extend beyond the reach of man—as, ...
— The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. - Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts • James Fenimore Cooper

... the sense of a common danger had lent the Congress a not easily defined but quite real coherence, which vanished when peace came, and the local ideals of the States took precedence. Take taxation. Congress could compute the quota of taxes which each State ought to pay, but it had no way of collecting or of enforcing payment. It took eighteen months to collect five per cent of the taxes laid in 1783. Of course ...
— George Washington • William Roscoe Thayer

... "methinks I would know if you, who, in this extraordinary press of knights, seem to assert a precedence to yourself, claim the dignity due to a ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... to arise in the best cemented confederacies. English, Prussians, Danes, Wirtemburgers, Dutch, Hanoverians, and Hessians, were blended in such nearly equal proportions, that the arms of no one state could be said by its numerical preponderance to be entitled to the precedence. But the consummate address, splendid talents, and conciliatory manners of Marlborough, as well as the brilliant valour which the English auxiliary force had displayed on many occasions, had won for them ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various


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