Use "precedency" em uma frase

1. By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army ; but

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2. No society, whether barbarous or civilized, has ever found it convenient to settle the rules of precedency of rank and subordination, according to those invisible qualities; but according to something that is more plain and palpable

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3. Among nations of hunters, such as the native tribes of North America, age is the sole foundation of rank and precedency

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