Precedency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PRECEDENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the fact of preceding in time, also PRECEDENCE
• the order to be ceremonially observed by people of different rank, according to an acknowledged or legally determined system
• the condition of being considered more important than someone or something else; priority in importance, order, or rank
• The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.
• The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners.
• status established in order of importance or urgency
• the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
• the fact of preceding in time

Words related to PRECEDENCY

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How to use PRECEDENCY in a sentence

• This precedency it probably obtained from its being a pastime to generally followed by the nobility, not in Great Britain only, but likewise on the continent.
• If his claim to precedency rested on the grandeur of his capital, he must yield to the Bishop of Constantinople.
• In the former the precedency among the episcopal sees was settled, and the seat of some of them was removed from small villages to the most considerable town within the diocese.
• Often the crowd of quarrelsome candidates wrangle and fight for precedency, while at all times the interval is employed by the garrulous in every variety of ship-gossip.
• An anecdote is told of a captain in the service, since dead, that whilst carrying out a British ambassador to his station abroad, a quarrel arose on the subject of precedency.
• Female officers arrange the crowd of his wives and slaves with the strictest attention to the order of precedency.
• The order of precedency to be observed in England was settled by an act of parliament passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of Henry VIII.
• I had read my last story, and it now only remained for chance to decide the question of precedency between Owen and Morgan.
• The devil will not dare to tempt one to pride or precedency who is truly humble because, being very crafty, he fears defeat.
• Then the minister of the most insignificant prince claimed precedency over the representative of the most potent republic.
• What became of the precedency of the married lady all this time? you will be ready to ask.
• They effectually prevent all embarrassments from the question of precedency, by their own decisions.
• In the former, the precedency among the episcopasees was settled, and the seat of some of them was removed from small villages to the most considerable town within the diocese.
• Crillon, disregarding all precedency, sprang from his table and hurried first to the threshold.
• On one of the annual dinners instituted to commemorate their arrival in Caithness, a dispute arose as to the right of precedency in taking the door and the head of the table.
• There is infinitely more to do about Place and Precedency in a Meeting of Justices Wives, than in an Assembly of Dutchesses.
• I do not find that the Precedency among the Individuals, in this latter Class of Writers, is yet settled.
• I come now to that point of Precedency which is settled among the three Learned Professions, by the Wisdom of our Laws.
• In the second year of college life, precedency according to the aristocratic scale was determined, and the arrangement of names on the class roll was in accordance.
• All nations and religions have precedency, in the royal favor, over the children of the Patriarchs.
• Dispute for precedency with the Venetian Ambassador XI.
• Quarrel between the English and Swedes for precedency BOOK V.
• The Swedes took the precedency of the English and kept it some time.
• The Swedes maintained that they ought to have the precedency of the English, because the kingdom of Sweden was more ancient than that of England.
• The English Minister represented, that as the Danes and Norwegians, whose kingdoms were very ancient, yielded the precedency to England, the Swedes ought to follow their example.
• The Ambassador of Sweden afterwards asked Leicester what rank the English pretended to give the Czar, to whom the Kings of Sweden would never yield the precedency.
• The pope might still retain his rights of episcopal precedency, whatever those might be, with all the privileges attached to it.

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