Præference

Full definition of præference

Noun

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

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