Definition of "higher rank" []

• Higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In case of special indult, as in the United States, they may be transferred, but not beyond Lent; they have the rank of a secondary double major and give place to feasts of higher rank and to primary ones of the same rank."
• "Whether Davis could or would have written a novel of the higher rank is a useless question now; he himself, who was a critic of his own work without illusions or affectation, used to say that he could not; but it is certain that in the early part of "Captain Macklin" he displayed a power really Thackerayan in kind."
• "A priest of higher rank in thc Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic"