"predecessory" meaning in All languages combined

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "predecessor",
        "3": "-y"
      },
      "expansion": "predecessor + -y",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From predecessor + -y.",
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      "args": {
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      "expansion": "predecessory",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
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        },
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          "parents": [],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1927, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, page 876:",
          "text": "Applicant is successor to the Seaboard & Roanoke, through merger and consolidation, and through agreement has assumed obligations of the predecessory company.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Arthur F. Kinney, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Writing is filled with predecessory texts, learned and vernacular, wise and foolish, and the process of rhetorical education is largely a process of ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 57:",
          "text": "What Oliphant has meant tot tribes is that states have predecessory rights but tribes do not. How did this happen west of the Mississippi, where there were clear tribal-nation predecessory rights established in treaties prior to the establishment of any status of statehood in the West?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Being or pertaining to a predecessor."
      ],
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          "predecessor",
          "predecessor"
        ]
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    }
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  "word": "predecessory"
}

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      "args": {
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        "2": "predecessor",
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From predecessor + -y.",
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    {
      "args": {
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1927, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Reports and Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, page 876:",
          "text": "Applicant is successor to the Seaboard & Roanoke, through merger and consolidation, and through agreement has assumed obligations of the predecessory company.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Arthur F. Kinney, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Writing is filled with predecessory texts, learned and vernacular, wise and foolish, and the process of rhetorical education is largely a process of ...",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 57:",
          "text": "What Oliphant has meant tot tribes is that states have predecessory rights but tribes do not. How did this happen west of the Mississippi, where there were clear tribal-nation predecessory rights established in treaties prior to the establishment of any status of statehood in the West?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Being or pertaining to a predecessor."
      ],
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          "predecessor",
          "predecessor"
        ]
      ]
    }
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  "word": "predecessory"
}