Oh, what a lovely question! "Immediately preceding" simply means the thing that happened right before. It's like when you see a beautiful sunset followed by the stars twinkling in the night sky - the sunset is immediately preceding the stars. Just a happy little way of saying what happened right before something else.
Immediately.
The cat allowed me to precede him to the door.
immediately, at this moment, at once
enseguida means immediately
It means a person can see or realise things that are not immediately obvious.
It means one year before that year. One year immediately preceding December 2010 is December 2009.
Thereto is a term used most often during the early settlements of the United States. It refers to the statement immediately preceding the "thereto".
10000This is an even number, and the number immediately preceding it is 9999, which has only four digits.Hence it is the smallest 5-digit even number.Note that here we're not considering negative numbers. If we consider negative numbers, then the smallest 5-digit even number would be -99998.The number immediately preceding it is -99999, which is not even, and the number immediately preceding that is -100000, which has six digits.
Four of them.
The prime number which comes immediately before 30 is 29.
Advent ("coming") is the church season immediately preceding Christmas.
the years immediately preceding the Civil War
Immediately.
the ( preceding a word beginning with a vowel)
A (apex)
Advent begins the Church year, so technically there is nothing "before" it, but the season immediately preceding it is Ordinary Time.
In the Bible, Isaiah comes before Jeremiah.