All 3 Uses of
precedence
in
Middlemarch
- Mrs. Cadwallader was strong on the intended creation of peers: she had it for certain from her cousin that Truberry had gone over to the other side entirely at the instigation of his wife, who had scented peerages in the air from the very first introduction of the Reform question, and would sign her soul away to take precedence of her younger sister, who had married a baronet.†
Chpt 8 *
- ," and that Dodo never minded about precedence if she could have her own way.†
Chpt 8
- Mrs. Cadwallader held that it was a poor satisfaction to take precedence when everybody about you knew that you had not a drop of good blood in your veins; and Celia again, stopping to look at Arthur, said, "It would be very nice, though, if he were a Viscount—and his lordship's little tooth coming through!†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(precedence) to be prior to something else in time, order or importance