All 3 Uses of
precede
in
The Scarlet Letter
- 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.†
p. 52.3 *preceded = went or was before
- 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.†
p. 172.7preceding = prior (in time or space)
- 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.†
p. 191.0
Definition:
to go or do before