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antecessor
noun 2
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3ADJ.
present
VERB + ANTECESSOR
kill
ANTECESSOR + NOUN
grandfather
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noun
1
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?
2
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,
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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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