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preaudience en · NOUN

Etymology

From pre- + audience, i.e. the right to be heard before another.

Meanings

  1. (UK, historical, uncountable) Precedence of rank at the bar among lawyers.
    • A patent of precedence is sometimes granted cedence to barristers , which entitles them to such rank and preaudience as are assigned in their respective patents 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC: