Precedence
['presɪd(ə)ns;prɪ'siːd(ə)ns] or [prɪ'sidəns]
Definition
(noun.) status established in order of importance or urgency; '...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals'; 'national independence takes priority over class struggle'.
Typist: Malcolm--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Alt. of Precedency
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Priority (in time), anteriority, antecedence.[2]. Preference, superiority, pre-eminence.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Superiority, lead, priority, preference, antecedence, supremacy, pre-eminence
ANT:Inferiority, sequence, subordination, posteriority
Typist: Miguel
Definition
n. the act of going before in time: priority: the state of being before in rank: the place of honour: the foremost place in ceremony—also Precē′dency.—adj. Precē′dent going before in order of time: anterior.—n. Precedent (pres′ēdent) a past action which may serve as an example or rule in the future: a parallel case in the past: an established habit or custom.—adjs. Prec′edented having a precedent: warranted by an example; Preceden′tial of the nature of a precedent.—adv. Precē′dently.—adj. Precē′ding going before in time rank &c.: antecedent: previous: former.—Order of precedence the rules which fix the places of persons at a ceremony; Patent of precedence a royal grant giving to certain barristers right of superior rank; Take precedence of to have a right to a more honourable place.
Typist: Paul
Examples
- Mr. Lowten disappeared with a grin, and immediately returned ushering in the firm, in due form of precedence--Dodson first, and Fogg afterwards. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Neither would he ever consent, even at his brother's request, to be helped to any place before her, or to take precedence of her in anything. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- How pleased Mrs. Bute would have been: and ma tante if I had taken precedence of her! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This is Cedric's clown, who fought so manful a skirmish with Isaac of York about a question of precedence. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Shall my left hand dispute for precedence with my right? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The archers, having previously determined by lot their order of precedence, were to shoot each three shafts in succession. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the white blaze of this kingdom of his there was to be no property, no privilege, no pride and precedence; no motive indeed and no reward but love. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the confusion occasioned by their angry demands for precedence, it was long before we could discover the secret meaning of this strange scene. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yet she could not help feeling rather resentful at the way in which Gudrun and Gerald should assume a right over her, a precedence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Willingly would I have kept mine also, but Graham's desire must take precedence of my own; I accompanied him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Celia confessed it was nicer to be Lady than Mrs., and that Dodo never minded about precedence if she could have her own way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Elliot's contrivance, to which Sir David Brewster is inclined to give precedence in point of date, was very inferior in its effects to the reflecting Stereoscope. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It was of course amongst these that the most frequent disputes for precedence occurred. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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