Both Uses
precede
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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- On the New Year's day preceding my aunt's death, one of my friends, named Fanny, was to be sold at auction, to pay her master's debts.†
Chpt 29 *preceding = prior (in time or space)
- As has been already stated, in the preceding pages, the author of this volume spent some time under her hospitable roof.†
Chpt Appe
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)