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precedency

[ pres-i-duhn-see, pri-seed-n-see ]

noun

plural precedencies.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of precedency1

First recorded in 1590–1600; preced(ence) + -ency
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Mar-a-Lago, which was called Trump's "Winter White House" after he spent many of his weekends there during the start of his precedency, is also in that path.

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A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter.

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One day there happened some words between the Ant and the Fly about precedency, and the point was argued with great warmth and eagerness on both sides.

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As "the Lords Spiritual" are always placed before "the Lords Temporal," he is obliged to rank the clergy before the nobility in spite of the order of precedency observed in the Collect.

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In that year an action was brought by the Earl of Sutherland against the Earls of Crawford, Errol, and Marischal, to determine the question of precedency in the rolls of Parliament.

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