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Definition of Prefers
1. prefer [v] - See also: prefer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefers
Literary usage of Prefers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"The following notes are drawn from experience in cultivation of these native
ferns in the neighborhood of Philadelphia. Adiantum pedal um prefers light, ..."
2. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"In theory, Positivism prefers Synthetic Spiritualism to ... In practice, it
prefers re- Positivism will relieve the chiefs from a de- ..."
3. The Institutes of Justinian: With English Introduction, Translation, and Notes by Justinian, Thomas Collett Sandars (1878)
"... namely, that of one-fourth. cognatis. ing a deduction set forth in the
constitution), and prefers them to all agnati of an inferior degree, ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Against loyers going to war, in which he philosophically prefers love and Delia
to the more serious vanities of the world. ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"The peach will succeed upon a wide range of soil- types, but prefers a sandy loam.
It will also develop exceptionally well upon gravelly or stony loams, ..."
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