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Use "precedency" in a sentence
"How ready was Paul to acknowledge in others any kind of precedency!"
"Obama has hardly any political experience prior to his precedency."
"Thou knowest that on this occasion it is one of these Counts, or western Franks, who undertakes the combat; and the Varangians, who call these people their enemies, have some reason to claim a precedency in guarding the lists, which it might not at this moment be convenient to dispute with them."