antecessor

noun 2

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noun

A person or thing that precedes or goes before.

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?

A person from whom one is descended.

[…] 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,

ADJ.

present

VERB + ANTECESSOR

kill

ANTECESSOR + NOUN

grandfather

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

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

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

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i Register

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