All 3 Uses of
precede
in
A Room of One's Own
- Therefore I propose, making use of all the liberties and licences of a novelist, to tell you the story of the two days that preceded my coming here—how, bowed down by the weight of the subject which you have laid upon my shoulders, I pondered it, and made it work in and out of my daily life.†
Chpt 1preceded = went or was before
- Both in France and in England the women poets precede the women novelists.†
Chpt 4 *
- Have I, in the preceding words, conveyed to you sufficiently the warnings and reprobation of mankind?†
Chpt 6preceding = prior (in time or space)
Definition:
to go or do before