preferentiality

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They were mostly three-or four-story structures�musty headquarters for centuries of proud merchant traders, insurance brokers and craftsmen who preferred tradition to comfort.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the Newt Family Bible was under a lock of which the key lay in Mrs. Boniface Newt's bureau, who, in a question of age, preferred tradition, which she could judiciously guide, to Scripture.

From Trumps by Curtis, George William

We shall see from the testimony of Papias that he at least preferred tradition to the books with which he was acquainted.

From Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels by Wheeler, Joseph Mazzini

Whatever books Papias knew, however, it is certain, from his own express declaration, that he ascribed little importance to them, and preferred tradition as a more beneficial source of information regarding evangelical history.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard