Meaning of antecessor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person or thing that precedes or goes before.
   archaic
2. A person from whom one is descended.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“1671, Joseph Glanvill, A Præfatory Answer⟳ to Mr. Henry Stubbe, London: J. Collins, p. 57, […] the Waldenses[,] Antecessors of the Protestants”

“Yet who says, I have⟳ faith in the existence of George II., as his present⟳ Majesty’s antecessor and grandfather?”

“This, then, is their horrid counsel and device—that each one of their gods should kill⟳ his antecessor.”

“The Book of Change⟳ in the general form⟳ it is known today [sic] is approximately three thousand years old. It is the third in a series of such texts, its antecessors supposed by some scholars to have⟳ been composed six and twelve hundred years earlier.”

“[…] some, hath iudged wrongfully As in reproche, of our country Deniyng playne, moste noble Brute Our antecessor our stocke and our frute.”

“[…] promises made to Abraham, and to other antecessors of the Iewes,”

“At his mother’s knee he had heard of the exploits of her family, which boasted among its antecessors a surgeon on Nelson’s ship at Trafalgar.”

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