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单词 predecession
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predecessionn.

Brit. /ˌpriːdᵻˈsɛʃn/, U.S. /ˌprɛdəˈsɛʃ(ə)n/, /ˌpridəˈsɛʃ(ə)n/
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre- prefix, decession n.
Etymology: Apparently < pre- prefix + decession n., after predecessor n. Compare post-classical Latin praedecessio (in an undated text in Du Cange). Compare earlier predecessing adj. and predecessive adj., and later predecess v.
The state or condition of being a predecessor; the action of preceding something or someone; an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > preceding or following in order > [noun] > preceding in order
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1644 J. Lightfoot Harmony Foure Evangelists: 1st Pt. 56 Jechonias was Father to Salathiel, as Baasha was to Ahab,..not by generation, but by predecession. For Jechonias in very deed was childlesse.
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 51 Progenitors have had them for four and twenty predecessions.
1855 H. Martineau Autobiogr. (1877) III. 255 How much Judaism owes to Egyptian predecession.
a1865 L. L. Hamline Wks. (1869) 139 Inheritance implies predecession, which God's eternity must of course exclude.
1946 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 7 325 That must be judged a priori which, whatever its predecession or supersession,..nevertheless functions in practice as though..it were inexpugnable and inextirpatible.
1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Oct. 4 Virgil looks back to Homer and thereby constructs a new poem, one that frequently means more than any mere imitation could invoke, out of an acknowledged predecession.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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