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præcedent

præcedent is the obsolete form of precedent.

Meaning of precedent

Adjective

precedent (not comparable)

  1. Happening or taking place earlier in time; previous or preceding.
  2. (archaic) Coming before in a particular order or arrangement; preceding, foregoing.
    • In the precedent section mention was made, amongst other pleasant objects, of this comeliness and beauty which proceeds from women […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III...

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Forms of præcedent

pluralpræcedents

Questions about præcedent

What is præcedent the obsolete form of?
Præcedent is the obsolete form of precedent.

Words near præcedent in the dictionary

  1. præantepenultimas
  2. præcaval
  3. præcavals
  4. præcede
  5. præceded
  6. præcedent
  7. præcedents
  8. præcedes
  9. præceding
  10. præcentor
  11. præcentors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præcedent (page history and authors); precedent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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