precedency

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He granted them their fast, but they would now grant no return; for now they presented “a Declaration” to the king, that tonnage and poundage must give precedency to religion!

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

Woman is the blood-royal of life; let there be slight degrees of precedency among them, but let them all be sacred.

From The Real Robert Burns by Hughes, J. L.

Next in dignity is the Archbishop of York, between whom and the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord High-Chancellor of England has his place in precedency.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

In that year an action was brought by the Earl of Sutherland against the Earls of Crawford, Errol, and Marischal, to determine the question of precedency in the rolls of Parliament.

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John

Few have even a moderate idea of the amazement of my hero, when he saw the critic set virtue and vice at once at a round table, without any quarrel for precedency.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich