"preferency" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: preferencies [plural]
Etymology: From Latin praeferentia. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|praeferentia}} Latin praeferentia Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} preferency (countable and uncountable, plural preferencies)
  1. (rare) Preference. Tags: countable, rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-preferency-en-noun-M8RQ1ds9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1677, Richard Gilpin, “Of Satan’s second way of improving his Advantages, which is by working upon the Understanding indirectly by the Affections. […]”, in Dæmonologia Sacra. Or, A Treatise of Satans Temptations: In Three Parts., London: […] J. D. for Richard Randel, and Peter Maplisden, […], part II, page 267:",
          "text": "This is noted of Arrius, by Theodoret, that when Alexander was choſen Biſhop of Alexandria, he envied him the preferency, and from thence ſought occaſions of Contention, which after a little while the Devil brought to his hand, as we have heard.",
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          "text": "However art thou bound unto a Wife? Seek not to be loos’d on the account of what I ſay concerning the preferency of a ſingle life. And on the other hand, art thou loos’d from a Wife? Seek not a Wife.",
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