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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of superseding.

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  • noun The act of superseding; replacement of an older thing by a newer.

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Examples

  • Thus undistracted, I am able to consider the supersedence of the United Kingdom as the supreme legal and political authority in these Islands and how the battlefield now lies.

    The Tories Must Get Off the Fence Too 2008

  • Thus undistracted, I am able to consider the supersedence of the United Kingdom as the supreme legal and political authority in these Islands and how the battlefield now lies.

    Archive 2008-03-02 2008

  • The only way to uninstall patches back then was to installing a patch that obsolesces (the predecessor to supersedence) another patch, optionally carrying a file payload to avoid prompts for source to replace older files.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

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