Read full poem →The revolting nature of the food itself is the reason assigned by
Statius why Phlegyas forebore to partake of it, and preferred to endure
the pangs of hunger.]
Dictionary Entry
Liked or wanted more than other things or people.
In a Sentence
“She chose the preferred route because it had less traffic.”
Origin
From Latin 'praeferre' (to carry before, to prefer).
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “preferred”
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Read full poem →Ftesh as hie own. and flouriEhing.
But he preferred to the Cinque Ports '
Theae fiye imaginary forts,
Read full poem →purchase any fame by them at the price of death-
He preferred to live atid write more. It was
by his prose works thai he not only acquired a
Read full poem →Sitch; so that it may be fairly preferred to every tning of its kind m all
hakespeare, except one scene of Lear's madness, which it would emulate
Read full poem →Hence the gay sprigktliness and natural ease of his young gentleman are
allowed to be inimitable; in these be has been preferred by judges of can-
dour even to Shakespeare himself. If Beaumont does not equal him in
Read full poem →withdrawn from school. I went to bed and my parents covered me with
ointments. There was a brown salve that stank. My father preferred that
one for me. It burned. He insisted that I keep it on longer, much longer
Read full poem →she stayed away. He did not want to collect sous from
a crowd of fellows just like himself. He preferred to
play for them and be treated to wine. Sous! How
Read full poem →Of forced native labor, because the natives preferred
to live lazily their own lives, rather than labor for the
Read full poem →The lection from 1590 and 1609 is to be preferred, since 1596
(with an extraneous comma) appears to be in error.
Read full poem →merit a separate entry in the _Shorter Oxford English
Dictionary_) have been unified to the spelling preferred by that
and its parent dictionary. This should allow the reader, during