Associations to the word «Precedency»

Wiktionary

PRECEDENCY, noun. Precedence; superiority.
PRECEDENCY, noun. (obsolete) The fact of serving as a precedent.

Dictionary definition

PRECEDENCY, noun. Status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle".
PRECEDENCY, noun. Preceding in time.
PRECEDENCY, noun. The act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony).

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin