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What does precedency mean?

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Noun
  1. Precedence; superiority.
  2. (obsolete) The fact of serving as a precedent.
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Among the latter, they certainly had no precedency, so far as history reaches.
The like has followed about the precedency of princes and their ambassadors.
He flourished in the time of Boschini, who bestowed upon him and Liberi the precedency over all other Venetians of the age.
For Precedency due to Baronets and their wives a baronetage should be consulted.
I believe there is some tremendous question respecting the precedency of this lady.
The Swedes took the precedency of the English and kept it some time.

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