Crossword-Solution: PREFERENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Preference | n. | The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; as, to give him his preference. |
| Preference | n. | That which is preferred; the object of choice or superior favor; as, which is your preference? |
We have 51 clues for the answer “PREFERENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the right or chance to choose | 1 answer |
| Favored option | 1 answer |
| Favoured option | 1 answer |
| prefix | 8 answers |
| First choice | 10 answers |
| first-choice | 10 answers |
| Volition | 14 answers |
| habilitation | 15 answers |
| Election | 16 answers |
| priority | 17 answers |
| proneness | 18 answers |
| Proclivity | 28 answers |
| Predilection | 32 answers |
| Penchant | 35 answers |
| Leeway | 37 answers |
| flexibility | 38 answers |
| Advancement | 38 answers |
| expectation | 39 answers |
| Preferred | 39 answers |
| Propensity | 41 answers |
| possibility | 45 answers |
| Option | 46 answers |
| Risk | 47 answers |
| free will | 51 answers |
| Selection ___ | 52 answers |
| Prejudice | 53 answers |
| Tending | 53 answers |
| Partiality | 53 answers |
| complexion | 54 answers |
| Latitude | 56 answers |
| Vision | 56 answers |
| Thirst | 56 answers |
| Alternative | 56 answers |
| inclining | 57 answers |
| Outcome | 58 answers |
| DECISION ___ | 59 answers |
| prospect | 62 answers |
| Tenor | 63 answers |
| trend | 63 answers |
| Scope | 66 answers |
| Slope | 66 answers |
| Occasion | 66 answers |
| Habit | 66 answers |
| Wish ___ | 68 answers |
| Desire | 70 answers |
| "Pick ___ ..." | 71 answers |
| personality | 75 answers |
| Taste | 75 answers |
| Opening | 76 answers |
| Nature | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AAER
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PREFERENCE (5)
Boldwood mistook his confusion: sensitive persons are always ready with their “Is it I?” in preference to objective reasoning.
The minister—for, save the long-sought regards of woman, nothing is sweeter than these marks of childish preference, accorded spontaneously by a spiritual instinct, and therefore seeming to imply in us something truly worthy to be loved—the minister looked round, laid his hand on the child’s head, hesitated an instant, and then kissed her brow.
Their undeniable preference for men as their source of nourishment is partly explained by the nature of the remains of the victims they had brought with them as provisions from Mars.
Fossils are used by most MS-DOS {BBS} software in preference to the `supported' ROM routines, which do not support interrupt-driven operation or setting speeds above 9600; the use of a semistandard FOSSIL library is preferable to the {bare metal} serial port programming otherwise required.
Hence, they habitually appeal to society at large, without distinction of class; nay, by preference, to the ruling class.
Quotes with PREFERENCE (3)
What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?
[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? I do not mean that they choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclinations. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do…
Man is encased, as though in a shell, in the particular ranking of the simplest values and value-qualities which represent the objective side of his *ordo amoris*, values which have not yet been shaped into things and goods. He carries this shell along with him wherever he goes and cannot escape from it no matter how quickly he runs. He perceives the world and himself through the windows of this shell, and perceives no more of the world, of himself, or of anything else beside…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1981–1994).