Præference
Full definition of præference
Noun
præference
(plural præferences)- 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 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.