All 9 Uses
precede
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
(Edited)
- 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.
p. 15.7preceding = who have gone before
- He is now much recovered from his illness and is continually on the deck, apparently watching for the sledge that preceded his own.
p. 29.1preceded = was in front of
- I trembled excessively; I could not endure to think of, and far less to allude to, the occurrences of the preceding night.
p. 61.9preceding = prior
- 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.
p. 71.8
- 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.
p. 77.6preceding = having just passed
- This day was passed in the same routine as that which preceded it.
p. 113.4preceded = was before
- It was your journal of the four months that preceded my creation.
p. 132.8 *preceded = were before
- 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.
p. 139.5preceding = prior
- I had been awake the whole of the preceding night, my nerves were agitated, and my eyes inflamed by watching and misery.
p. 174.4preceding = prior (the most recent to pass)
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)