cessor

• “WELLINGTON WEBBWebb, who wears tennis shoes even with suits, took a laughingstock of an airport from his prede - cessor and helped get it open.”

  Newsweek: City Slickers

• “A pretty opinion he would have of the state of my affairs if I were to send him such a ‘cessor as you; and as for your lending me money, don’t think I was ever fool enough to suppose either that you had any, or if you had that you would be fool enough to lend me any.”

  Lavengro

• “His progress was notably slower than that of his prede-cessor.”

  The Chronicles of Riddick

• “It was a bad idea; like his own teacher he would train his own suc-cessor.”

  Elvenborn

• “At this mo - ment there came into existence a violent anti-Platonic literature which made Plato appear as the true prede - cessor of the detestable Rousseau.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “Bruno may also be mentioned as a supporter and suc - cessor of Nicholas of Cusa; his works abound in Neo -”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “In theology, as in so much of its life, the twentieth century has been in sharp revolt against its prede - cessor — as the nineteenth was against the eighteenth.”

  IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800

• “Each of the yugas differs from its prede - cessor much as the Ages of Hesiod did, in that wicked - ness and general evil grow greater.”

  CYCLES

• “It is noteworthy though, that the second century B.C., as if to almost show that it was not entirely down and out, produced the astronomer Hipparchus, famed dis - coverer of the precession of the equinoxes; and that the second century A.D., as if to lay claim to being indeed a “good” century, brought forth his great “suc - cessor” Claudius Ptolemy, author of the majestic”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• “Like his prede - cessor, Babbitt sought too neat a compartmentalization not only of art forms but of genre.”

  Dictionary of the History of Ideas

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