precedency
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Few have even a moderate idea of the amazement of my hero, when he saw the critic set virtue and vice at once at a round table, without any quarrel for precedency.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich
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
Bishops of the Church of England rank in order of precedency immediately above barons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
As "the Lords Spiritual" are always placed before "the Lords Temporal," he is obliged to rank the clergy before the nobility in spite of the order of precedency observed in the Collect.
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.
