Definition of prefer

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Prefer (v. t.) To cause to go before; hence, to advance before others, as to an office or dignity; to raise; to exalt; to promote; as, to prefer an officer to the rank of general..

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Antepone :: Antepone (v. t.) To put before; to prefer.
Choice :: Choice (superl.) Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen..
Preferment :: Preferment (n.) A position or office of honor or profit; as, the preferments of the church..
Preferred :: Preferred (imp. & p. p.) of Prefe.
Selfishness :: Selfishness (n.) The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others..
Will :: Will (v.) The choice which is made; a determination or preference which results from the act or exercise of the power of choice; a volition.
Select :: Select (a.) Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice.
Promottion :: Promottion (n.) The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment..
Choice :: Choice (n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
Roebuck :: Roebuck (n.) A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds..
Select :: Select (v. t.) To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal..
Pleasure :: Pleasure (n.) What the will dictates or prefers as gratifying or satisfying; hence, will; choice; wish; purpose..
Nativism :: Nativism (n.) The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries..
Preferable :: Preferable (a.) Worthy to be preferred or chosen before something else; more desirable; as, a preferable scheme..
Republican :: Republican (n.) One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.
Prefer :: Prefer (v. t.) To cause to go before; hence, to advance before others, as to an office or dignity; to raise; to exalt; to promote; as, to prefer an officer to the rank of general..
Oe :: Oe () a diphthong, employed in the Latin language, and thence in the English language, as the representative of the Greek diphthong oi. In many words in common use, e alone stands instead of /. Classicists prefer to write the diphthong oe separate in Latin words..
Preferring :: Preferring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prefe.
Refusal :: Refusal (n.) The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; as, to give one the refusal of a farm; to have the refusal of an employment..
Dignity :: Dignity (n.) Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation..
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