"predecessory" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "predecessor + -y",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Arthur F. Kinney, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600, Cambridge University Press",
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth, University of Illinois Press, 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?",
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        "Being or pertaining to a predecessor."
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  "word": "predecessory"
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  "etymology_text": "predecessor + -y",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Arthur F. Kinney, The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600, Cambridge University Press",
          "text": "Writing is filled with predecessory texts, learned and vernacular, wise and foolish, and the process of rhetorical education is largely a process of ...",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth, University of Illinois Press, 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?",
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