precedency
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The Archbishop of York has precedency over all Dukes, not being of royal blood, and over all the great officers of State, except the Lord Chancellor.
From The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments by E. E. Holmes
Population gathered around them—their precedency availed them nothing—they became nuisances, by the force of circumstances.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
One of the most honourable privileges granted to the Athletic victors, was the right of precedency at the public games.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Charles Rollin
Woman is the blood-royal of life; let there be slight degrees of precedency among them, but let them all be sacred.
From The Real Robert Burns by J. L. Hughes
Is it one limited to a precedency of honour and order? or one pre-eminent by an inherent jurisdiction and authority?
From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Thomas W. Allies
It seems that the Kandyans and we reciprocally misunderstood the ranks, orders, precedencies, titular distinctions, and external honours attached to them in our several nations.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
This poor Congress—-let the reader fancy it—spent two years in "arguments about precedencies," in mere beatings of the air; could not get seated at all, but wandered among the chairs, till "February, 1724."
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle
