Both Uses
precede
in
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
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- But after Christmas, when the snow turned to slush and the rain fell, the children were kept inside and the men played La-hell in the social hall long into the night, Mark felt a strange little wind of dissent which seemed to whisper in the firs, to precede him, to follow him wherever he went.†
Chpt 2.8
- Already nothing looked the same because it was going to end, because he was going to leave it, and the thought filled him with a twinge of sudden anguish and the little, unexpected fear that precedes any big change, sad or joyous.†
Chpt 4.21 *precedes = goes, does, or is before
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)