• Præference

    Full definition of præference

    Noun

    præference

    (plural præferences)
    1. Obsolete spelling of preference
      • 1686, a text quoted in 1848 by John Lauder Fountainhall and David Laing, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, pages 696–697:The Privy CounÅ¿ell referred this to the BiÅ¿chop of Edinburgh, in regard it was a mortification within his oune Dioces, and the caÅ¿e had formerly been before him when he was a Privie CounÅ¿eller; and he made a report that their poor Å¿hould have the præference.

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