Custom
Custom noun - A usual manner of behaving or doing.
Precedent and custom are semantically related in ritual topic. In some cases you can use "Precedent" instead a noun "Custom", when it comes to topics like habitual action.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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If consumed in error, long-standing custom and precedent also dictates the calories do not count.
Source: Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes - Also, Margaret Thatcher gave Harold Macmillan the Earldom of Stockton, since when he had taken office the custom was still in place; it has been speculated that she hoped to revive the precedent so that she would receive an earldom in due course.
Source: Useful Notes / Knight Fever -
For example, if the Empire followed the Thousand years of custom,tradition, law and precedent that existed at the time, Otomo Banu would have become Hantei XL after the Second Day of Thunder, but the Lion won the Tournament so we have the Toturi dynasty.
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