precedence vs precedents
precedence
Definitions
noun
- status established in order of importance or urgency
- the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
- preceding in time
Examples
There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral.
Getting things done properly took precedence over getting them done quickly.
Sometimes the country has to take precedence over a do-nothing imposter and pretender to the throne.
