precedency

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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.

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

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 School, A Sexton of the Old

The greatest age demands respect and precedency; and, as Venovali is the oldest, we will dispatch him first.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various

A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah