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Definition
to go or do before
- It was your journal of the four months that preceded my creation.Chapter 15 (34% in)
preceded = were before
- There—for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators—there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.Introductory Letters (4% in)
- He is now much recovered from his illness and is continually on the deck, apparently watching for the sledge that preceded his own.Introductory Letters (77% in)
- I trembled excessively; I could not endure to think of, and far less to allude to, the occurrences of the preceding night.Chapter 5 (60% in)
- I was undisturbed by thoughts which during the preceding year had pressed upon me, notwithstanding my endeavours to throw them off, with an invincible burden.Chapter 6 (95% in)
- It was echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.Chapter 7 (46% in)
- This day was passed in the same routine as that which preceded it.Chapter 12 (6% in)
- The horrible scene of the preceding day was forever acting before my eyes; the females were flying and the enraged Felix tearing me from his father's feet.Chapter 16 (16% in)
- I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery.Chapter 20 (48% in)
preceding = who have gone before
preceded = was in front of
preceding = prior
preceding = prior
preceding = having just passed
preceded = was before
preceding = prior
preceding = prior (the most recent to pass)
There are no more uses of "precede" in Frankenstein.
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