Meaning of preferency | Babel Free

Definitions

Preference.

countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

“To haue simply presented them to the GREEKES, he could haue done them no iniurie, what disparitie soeuer there might be: neither doth he weigh them also all together: in the great there is no preferencie.”

“This is noted of Arrius, by Theodoret, that when Alexander was choſen Biſhop of Alexandria, he envied him the preferency, and from thence ſought occaſions of Contention, which after a little while the Devil brought to his hand, as we have heard.”

“[T]here are other members, which being moſt uſeful to the principal part, are exalted to a particular preferency, and a third ſort, inferior and leſs uſeful, which through their weakneſs &c. ſeem liable to contempt and neglect, and conſequently to grievances; […]”

“However art thou bound unto a Wife? Seek not to be loos’d on the account of what I ſay concerning the preferency of a ſingle life. And on the other hand, art thou loos’d from a Wife? Seek not a Wife.”

“One explanation, which I call the seller’s preferency hypothesis, is that renters or sellers of housing have a unique aversion to dealing with Negroes not shared by the community at large and thus refuse to do so.”

“In Sir Kenneth’s view the desire to own shares personally goes along with the growing “middleclassness” of the nation. In other words, just as people demonstrate their class by their dress, their consumption preferencies and so on, owning shares personally becomes a statement about how people want to be perceived.”

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