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preferencies

preferencies is the plural of preferency.

Meaning of preferency

Noun

preferency (countable and uncountable, plural preferencies)

  1. (rare) Preference.
    • To haue simply presented them to the GREEKES, he could haue done them no iniurie, what disparitie soeuer there might be: neither doth he weigh them also all together: in the great there is no preferencie.1602, S[imon] G[oulart], translated by Thomas North, “The Life of Plutarch”, in The Liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octauius Cæsar Augustus: Collected out...

Questions about preferencies

What is preferencies the plural of?
Preferencies is the plural of preferency.

Words near preferencies in the dictionary

  1. preference shares
  2. preference stock
  3. preference stocks
  4. preferenced
  5. preferences
  6. preferencies
  7. preferencing
  8. preferency
  9. preferenda
  10. preferendum
  11. preferendums

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