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- noun Obsolete form of
predecessor .
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Examples
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Then, come there presentes streight from al countries, and peoples of his dominion: and all the Threasoures that the kyng, his predecessour lefte, are brought him.
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Afterward the said Waldemarus had by his daughter a nephew being duke at this present, who succeeded his predecessour both in lineal descent and in name also.
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Consecrated the same yeere wherein his predecessour departed out of this present life.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Chosen two yeres before the death of his predecessour.
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About the which affayres your Maiestie returned your letters of answere vnto our sayd predecessor, signifying that the sayd businesse of articles concerned al the communalty of your realme, and that your highnesse purposed, after consultation had in your parliament, to send a more deliberate, answere concerning the premisses, vnto our predecessour aforesayd.
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This man (being as yet in the life time of his predecessour fellow-labourer with him) was the first that kindled the loue of sincere doctrine at Holen in the hearts of many: and then being bishop did openly teache and defend the said doctrine.
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Consecrated the same yeere wherein his predecessour departed out of this present life.
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There is a Metropolitane in this Boghar, who causeth this to bee so streightly kept: and he is more obeyed then the king, and will depose the king, and place another at his will and pleasure, as he did by this king that raigned at our being there, and his predecessour, by the meanes of the said Metropolitan: for he betrayed him, and in the night slewe him in his chamber, who was a
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Chosen two yeres before the death of his predecessour.
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This man (being as yet in the life time of his predecessour fellow-labourer with him) was the first that kindled the loue of sincere doctrine at Holen in the hearts of many: and then being bishop did openly teache and defend the said doctrine.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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