All 3 Uses of
precede
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- In the moment that these words filled the room, and hung in the room like the infinitesimal moment of hanging, jagged light that precedes an explosion, John and his father were staring into each other's eyes.†
Chpt 1.1 *precedes = goes, does, or is before
- This silence, continuing like a corridor, carried Gabriel back to the silence that had preceded his birth in Christ.†
Chpt 2.2preceded = went or was before
- to rediscover, and, as it were, to trap and hold tightly in the palm of his hand, the moment preceding his fall, his change.†
Chpt 3.1preceding = prior (in time or space)
Definition:
to go or do before