prefer
verb (used with object)
to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than.
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They might remain unquestioningly, even preferredly, outside the doors of superiority, but out there they raised a clamor of self-assertion.
From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge