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præceding

præceding is the obsolete spelling of preceding.

præceding is the present participle and gerund of præcede.

Meaning of preceding

Adjective

preceding (not comparable)

  1. Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
    • On the preceding Monday Shobana had gone on vacation.

Questions about præceding

What is præceding the obsolete spelling of?
Præceding is the obsolete spelling of preceding.

Words near præceding in the dictionary

  1. præcede
  2. præceded
  3. præcedent
  4. præcedents
  5. præcedes
  6. præceding
  7. præcentor
  8. præcentors
  9. præcentrix
  10. præcept
  11. præceptor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: præceding (page history and authors); preceding (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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