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  1. The act of preferring or setting one thing above another; exaltation. A direct preference or prelation, a preferring sin before grace. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 657.
  2. The state of being preferred or exalted above others; preëminence.; preferment. Let, therefore, our life be moderate, our desires reasonable, our hopes little, our ends none in eminency and prelation above others. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 104.

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  1. from Middle English prelacion, from Old French prelation, prelacion, French prélation = Spanish prelacion = Portuguese prelação = Italian prelazione, from Late Latin prælatio(n-), a preferring, a preference, from Latin prælatus, past participle of præferre, prefer: see prelate, prefer.
 

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