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  • noun Plural form of precedence.

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Examples

  • I think it's important that we review each of the cases with those precedences in mind and take a look at it.

    CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2007 2007

  • It felt way too forced & rushed, and set some really bad precedences, because nobody can f_ck with the Panther.

    McDuffie on FF: ‘The stakes are going to be tremendous’ 2007

  • There are Western precedences for such a deconstruction, for example in the work of the medieval music theorist Johannes Tinctoris (Page 1-31).

    'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth 2001

  • The capital of the Republic is setting precedences in this field although it is not the city with the lowest infant mortality rate.

    President Castro Dedicates Cienfuegos School 1989

  • Thus a community developed-kept childless, except for its youngest members, nevertheless a community which found an identity, laws and precedences and ceremonies and stories and mysteries, in a mere few years, and was bound together by its squabbles as well as its loves.

    There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

  • Thus a community developed-kept childless, except for its youngest members, nevertheless a com­munity which found an identity, laws and precedences and ceremonies and stories and mysteries, in a mere few years, and was bound together by its squabbles as well as its loves.

    Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

  • With such precedences, it is not strange that my parents were astonished when their fourth child developed other and less exaggerated traits, with no inclination to be moulded.

    Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories M. T. W.

  • Alongside this collection there was another book that came to be regarded and used as a book of precedences.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • It was a sham thoughtful, sham man-of-the-world pose he assumed; it is an aggressive, conscious, challenging person astride before a fire, and a little distended by dinner and a sense of social and literary precedences, who uses the first person in Thackeray's novels.

    An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

  • They will believe that precedences represent real superiority, and they will honour what they see honoured, and ignore what they see treated as of no account.

    Mankind in the Making 1906

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