All 4 Uses
precede
in
The Communist Manifesto
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- The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.†
*preceding = prior (in time or space)
- All the preceding classes that got the upper hand, sought to fortify their already acquired status by subjecting society at large to their conditions of appropriation.†
- Do you mean the property of the petty artisan and of the small peasant, a form of property that preceded the bourgeois form?†
preceded = went or was before
- The selfish misconception that induces you to transform into eternal laws of nature and of reason, the social forms springing from your present mode of production and form of property—historical relations that rise and disappear in the progress of production—this misconception you share with every ruling class that has preceded you.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(precede) to go or do before
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)