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continuator /kənˈtɪnjʊeɪtə /noun1A person or thing that continues something or maintains continuity: the popes succeeded as the continuators of Byzantine rule...- From its very first days as a continuator of the wartime OSS, the ranks of the Agency were dominated by members of the liberal establishment.
- This Germanic people saw themselves as the continuators of the weakened Imperial power.
- The second sees in him a continuator of speculative theology - that is, a theologian who had to switch languages in order to speak of Greek philosophy.
1.1A person who writes a continuation of another’s work: the narratives of Thucydides or his continuator Xenophon...- ‘In my notions about the State,’ he wrote to his mother in February 1864, ‘I am quite papa's son, and his continuator.’
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