Definitions
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- noun The position or condition of a precursor.
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- noun The position or condition of a
precursor .
Etymologies
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precursor + -ship
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Examples
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Indeed, his inclinations went in that direction; he also believed that “Pythagoras and Plato derived their sublime theories from the same fountain with the sages of India” (Edgerton [1946], p. 236) — an idea which, by itself, should warn us against facile linear inter - pretations of simple precursorship.
LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968
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And such a one might contend that, even if the common idea of definite precursorship and teachership be a mistake, the more subtle doctrine that such work as Scott's, and as Miss
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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