præfer'd

English

Verb

præfer'd

1. (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 y^e Sage haue bin̄e allwayes præfer’d before high pride & ouertoppinge arrogance, wee thinke it most reasonable, for y^t for y^e better freedome of all mens sight, […]

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