All 3 Uses of
precedence
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- That the language question should take precedence of the economic question.†
Chpt 8 *
- …Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the…†
Chpt 15
- In what order of precedence, with what attendant ceremony was the exodus from the house of bondage to the wilderness of inhabitation effected?†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(precedence) to be prior to something else in time, order or importance