"antecessor" meaning in English

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          "text": "1671, Joseph Glanvill, A Præfatory Answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, London: J. Collins, p. 57,\n[…] the Waldenses[,] Antecessors of the Protestants"
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          "ref": "1810, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Notes on a Barrister’s Hints on Evangelical Preaching”, in Henry Nelson Coleridge, editor, The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: W. Pickering, published 1839, page 343:",
          "text": "Yet who says, I have faith in the existence of George II., as his present Majesty’s antecessor and grandfather?",
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          "ref": "1890, Grant Allen, chapter 23, in The Great Taboo, London: Chatto & Windus, page 209:",
          "text": "This, then, is their horrid counsel and device—that each one of their gods should kill his antecessor.",
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          "ref": "1994, Thomas Cleary, The Human Element: A Course in Resourceful Thinking, Boston: Shambhala, Introduction, pp. 14-15:",
          "text": "The Book of Change in the general form it is known today [sic] is approximately three thousand years old. It is the third in a series of such texts, its antecessors supposed by some scholars to have been composed six and twelve hundred years earlier.",
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        "(now rare) A person or thing that precedes or goes before."
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          "ref": "1547, Arthur Kelton, A chronycle with a genealogie declaryng that the Brittons and Welshemen are linealiye dyscended from Brute, London: Richard Grafton:",
          "text": "[…] some, hath iudged wrongfully\nAs in reproche, of our country\nDeniyng playne, moste noble Brute\nOur antecessor our stocke and our frute.",
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          "ref": "1614, Thomas Wilson, A Commentarie upon the Most Divine Epistle of S. Paul to the Romanes, London, Chapter 11, Dialogue 13, p. 926:",
          "text": "[…] promises made to Abraham, and to other antecessors of the Iewes,",
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          "ref": "1992, Lynne Bowen, chapter 1, in Muddling Through: The Remarkable Story of the Barr Colonists, Vancouver: Douglas & MacIntyre, page 5:",
          "text": "At his mother’s knee he had heard of the exploits of her family, which boasted among its antecessors a surgeon on Nelson’s ship at Trafalgar.",
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        "A person from whom one is descended."
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