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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as recession.

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Examples

  • The author Maynard Solomon wrote a paper alleging that Ives had backdated his scores in an effort to establish his p;recedence in the race toward atonality.

    Once More into the Breach Lisa Hirsch 2008

  • Suddenly the ship rises to the crest of the wave and the recedence leaves one looking down into what appears like a deep cavern.

    The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces William Elmer Bachman

  • Toward the end of the rolling road the wetness increased; there were little pools left from the recedence of the salt tide, and the wild breath of it was in our faces.

    The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900

  • Toward the end of the rolling road the wetness increased; there were little pools left from the recedence of the salt tide, and the wild breath of it was in our faces.

    The Heart's Highway Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

  • What other circumstances contributed to his victory over Horus are not recorded; in general it may be supposed that political changes occasioned the recedence of the latter.

    Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877

  • The accumulation was wholly glacial; and probably a lake had supervened on the melting of the great glacier and its recedence, which lake, confined by a frozen moraine, would periodically lose its waters by sudden accessions of heat melting the ice of the latter.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • -- (7) {M} eal a {f} avorite {th} e {n} {t} ook {p} recedence

    Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget

  • The confession of his unworthiness in comparison with the mightier one who should follow is unmistakably sincere, as is the completed joy of this friend of the bridegroom rejoicing greatly because of the bridegroom's voice, even when the bridegroom's presence meant the recedence of the friend into ever deepening obscurity (John iii.

    The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Rush Rhees

  • The confession of his unworthiness in comparison with the mightier one who should follow is unmistakably sincere, as is the completed joy of this friend of the bridegroom rejoicing greatly because of the bridegroom's voice, even when the bridegroom's presence meant the recedence of the friend into ever deepening obscurity (John iii.

    The Life of Jesus of Nazareth Rhees, Rush, 1860-1939 1902

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