Crossword-Solution: PREDECEASED 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Will you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of predeceased valour, and dare not avouch in your deeds any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and galling at this gentleman twice or thrice.

His son predeceased him, without issue, and on Lord Shelburne’s death, in 1751, his honours became extinct.

Also, if a son predeceased his father but left a child, that child would succeed to the father's land in the same way that the deceased would have.

The descendants of a son or daughter, who had predeceased, took the same share of the succession that their parent would have done had he been alive.

You hear not only the young mention (as is everywhere usual) the merits and the character of parents, who have, in the course of nature, predeceased them; but the widowed partner speaks, in ordinary conversation, of the lost spouse, and, what is still stranger, the parents allude frequently to the beauty or valour of the child whom they have interred.