supersessor

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noun

Someone or something that supersedes another.

OriginLatin supersedēre →
First used 19th c.Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounsupersessor (plural supersessors)

plural supersessors · alternative supercessor

  1. Someone or something that supersedes another.First known use 19th c.

    Lord Wellesley […] sent down all his carriages, servants, staff officers, and general establishment to receive his noble supercessor at the waterside.

    1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 401

Origin

  1. Latinsupersedēre“to supersede”
  2. Englishsupersessor

From the participle stem of Latin supersedēre (“to supersede”).

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