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Verb
præfer'd
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of præfer
- 17th Century, Thomas Tucker, quoted in Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana, volume I, page 20:
- Secondly because lowlinesse, and vndervaluinge humilite in the judgement of ye Sage haue bin̄e allwayes præfer’d before high pride & ouertoppinge arrogance, wee thinke it most reasonable, for yt for ye better freedome of all mens sight,
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