"præference" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "præferences",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "præference (plural præferences)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "preference"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1686, a text quoted in 1848 by John Lauder Fountainhall and David Laing, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, pages 696–697",
          "text": "The Privy Counſell referred this to the Biſchop of Edinburgh, in regard it was a mortification within his oune Dioces, and the caſe had formerly been before him when he was a Privie Counſeller; and he made a report that their poor ſhould have the præference."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of preference"
      ],
      "id": "en-præference-en-noun-EhSwE3hz",
      "links": [
        [
          "preference",
          "preference#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "præfer"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "præference"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "præferences",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "præference (plural præferences)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "præfer"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "preference"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English obsolete forms",
        "English terms spelled with Æ"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1686, a text quoted in 1848 by John Lauder Fountainhall and David Laing, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, pages 696–697",
          "text": "The Privy Counſell referred this to the Biſchop of Edinburgh, in regard it was a mortification within his oune Dioces, and the caſe had formerly been before him when he was a Privie Counſeller; and he made a report that their poor ſhould have the præference."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of preference"
      ],
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        [
          "preference",
          "preference#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "præference"
}