Both Uses
precede
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
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- On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly incrusted with nacre, a present from his guardian's wife, Lady Radley, who had spent the preceding winter in Cairo, was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.†
Chpt 8preceding = prior (in time or space)
- Gradually the events of the preceding night crept with silent bloodstained feet into his brain, and reconstructed themselves there with terrible distinctness.†
Chpt 12 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)