precedency

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The Archbishop of Canterbury is the first Peer of the Realm, and has precedency immediately after the blood royal.

From The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments by Holmes, E. E.

Huish sat there preening his sinister vanity, glorying in his precedency in evil; and the villainous courage and readiness of the creature shone out of him like a candle from a lantern.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John

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 Allies, Thomas W.

Bertram could discover no marks of rank or precedency amongst these men, as they passed him one by one, each turning aside to throw a searching glance on the apparently sleeping stranger.

From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by De Quincey, Thomas