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Definition
to go or do before
- Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment.Chapter 2 — The Market Place (55% in)
- Here they sat down on a luxuriant heap of moss; which at some epoch of the preceding century, had been a gigantic pine, with its roots and trunk in the darksome shade, and its head aloft in the upper atmosphere.Chapter 16 — A Forest Walk (57% in)
- It offered her the partridge-berries, the growth of the preceding autumn, but ripening only in the spring, and now red as drops of blood upon the withered leaves.Chapter 18 — A Flood of Sunshine (83% in)
There are no more uses of "precede" in The Scarlet Letter.
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