precedencies
- plural of precedency.
Example Sentences
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This poor Congress—-let the reader fancy it—spent two years in "arguments about precedencies," in mere beatings of the air; could not get seated at all, but wandered among the chairs, till "February, 1724."
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas
It seems that the Kandyans and we reciprocally misunderstood the ranks, orders, precedencies, titular distinctions, and external honours attached to them in our several nations.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
