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.

Similar words containing CEDEN without suffix cy and without prefix pre

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