præference

A form of preference — The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to the thing or person, but possibly also "of")

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Meanings

nounpræference (plural præferences)

plural præferences

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of preference.

    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.

    1686, a text quoted in 1848 by John Lauder Fountainhall and David Laing, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, pages 696–697
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