HOW TO PRONOUNCE
precede
/pɹɪˈsid/
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What does precede mean?
verb
- To go before, go in front of.
- To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
- To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
More meanings (1)
noun
- Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay).
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Why don’t they grant that the right inclination of the heart toward God through faith in Christ must precede works?
The Professor took the key, opened the creaky door, and standing back, politely, but quite unconsciously, motioned me to precede him.
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He gave us three Indians, who, armed with their machetes, were to precede us, and cut our way through the forest.
Successively, it requires that each act be balanced with those which precede and come after, so that order of activity is achieved.
It came, and she had yet heard nothing of her return—nothing even of the going to London, which was to precede her return.