præfer'd

Verb

 * 1) * 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,
 * 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,