precedency

Noun

prec=e=den=cy

WORDNET DICTIONARY

precedency(n = noun.state) precedence, priority - status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle"

is a kind of high status

has particulars: back burner, front burner

precedency(n = noun.attribute) antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, priority - preceding in time; Array

is a kind of earliness

Derived form verb precede₁

precedency(n = noun.act) precedence, precession - the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony); Array

is a kind of activity

Derived forms verb precede₄, adjective precedent₁

precedency, n. [Cf. F. précédence. See Precede.].

The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. [1913 Webster]
The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners. [1913 Webster]
"Which of them [the different desires] has the precedency in determining the will to the next action?" [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Antecedence; priority; pre'89minence; preference; superiority.

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