Præferre

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of prefer. alt-of, obsolete

    "Thirdelie for that the ſimple and vnlearned readers haue often beſt liking in bookes more boldely then learnedly vvritten, and are moſt in daunger to creadite moſt levvde and ſclaunderouſe lyes (in ſo muche that a great many for the commendation of theſe vertues, doo præferre the Scholar before the Maiſter, M. Dorman I meane, before D. Hardinge, ſuche is their iudgement) I haue therfore in anſvvering more at large, applied my ſelfe to such as be of meane vnderſtandinge, to vvhom the guilefull dealinges of the Papiſtes can not vvith breuitie be made manifeſt."

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