• Preferre

    Full definition of preferre

    Verb

    1. Obsolete form of en 14th–17th c.
      • Shakespeare Julius Caesar|III|i|118|2|, let him go, / And preÅ¿ently preferre his Å¿uite to Cæſar.
      • Florio Montaigne Essayes|I|27. Of FriendÅ¿hip.|92|And therefore doe they preferre the beloved, and verifie that the Gods likewiÅ¿e preferre the Å¿ame:
      • Augustine City of God|What it is to haue CHRIST for the foundation: who they are, that Å¿halbe Å¿aued(as it were)by fire. 26.|XXI|868|But if hee preferre theÅ¿e things before CHRIST, though hee Å¿eeme to hold his fayth, yet CHRIST is no foundation vnto him, in that hee preferres thoÅ¿e vanities before him.

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