All 7 Uses
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Profiles in Courage
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- During the critical month preceding Webster's speech, six Southern states, each to secede ten years later, approved the aims of the Nashville Convention and appointed delegates.†
Chpt 2.3 *preceding = prior (in time or space)
- and the eleventh was a deliberately obscure conglomeration of all the charges in the preceding articles, which had been designed by Thaddeus Stevens to furnish a common ground for those who favored conviction but Wereunwilling to identify themselves on basic issues.†
Chpt 3.6
- Throughout the country, and in all walks of life, as indicated by the correspondence of Members of the Senate, the condition of the public mind was not unlike that preceding a great battle.†
Chpt 3.6
- To close our stories of American political courage, we would do well to recall an act of courage which preceded the founding of this nation, and which set a standard for all to follow.†
Chpt 4.10preceded = went or was before
- For not a single one of the men whose stories appear in the preceding pages offers a simple, clear-cut picture of motivation and accomplishment.†
Chpt 4.11preceding = prior (in time or space)
- But in the particular events set forth in the preceding chapters, I am persuaded after long study of the record that the national interest, rather than private or political gain, furnished the basic motivation for the actions of those whose deeds are therein described.†
Chpt 4.11
- If this be true, what then caused the statesmen mentioned in the preceding pages to act as they did?†
Chpt 4.11
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)