Definitionn. higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service
Last update: June 30, 2015
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The inscriptions seem to indicate that the monarchies of South Arabia were hereditary, the son generally following the father, though not seldom the brother of the deceased came between, apparently on the principle of seniority, which we find also in North Arabia. [Please select]
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And I was only his half-friend, without enough merit in my heart truly to be the right-hand man I was by right of seniority. [Please select]
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Of us seven, first in seniority came I; and as I have tried already to make clear I was Ranjoor. [Please select]
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Captain Raleigh, because of his seniority, had taken command of the small British squadron. [Please select]
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Then one by one the members of the Council uttered their opinions in order of rank or seniority. [Please select]
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Captain Landais, without any show of reason, claimed that the command, by right of seniority of commission, belonged to him. [Please select]
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Irving's seniority gave him a certain prestige with the younger men, and naturally with Miss Welsh. [Please select]
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Third of us daffadars in order of seniority was Anim Singh, a big man, born in the village next my father's.' [Please select]
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It belonged to Colonel Hastings, colonel of a native regiment stationed there, and at present, in virtue of seniority, commanding a brigade. [Please select]
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Judith had come then, too, always seeming grown up to Salome by reason of her ten years' seniority. [Please select]
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Paul, who was by seniority the spokesman, touched his cap, and looked as dignified as though he had been the minister plenipotentiary of one of the great powers. [Please select]
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