precedency
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If it had been a trumpery little baronetcy," said Minnie, strong in her new honours, "that would have been quite a different matter; but why should one give up one's precedency, and all that?
From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
He granted them their fast, but they would now grant no return; for now they presented “a Declaration” to the king, that tonnage and poundage must give precedency to religion!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
None of the prior pastoral writers he enumerates produced a drama, and Warton was right in giving the precedency to Beccari.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope
Sheriff, his precedency over the lord lieutenant, 394.
From Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 5, January-June, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by George Bell
He that entered the church first had the precedency of officiating, the other keeping silence until the congregation received the Benediction after sermon.’
From East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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
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