supersessor

supersessor

English

Alternative forms

• supercessor

Etymology

From the participle stem of Latin supersedēre (“to supersede”).

Noun

supersessor (plural supersessors)

1. Someone or something that supersedes another. [from 19th c.]
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 401:

     Lord Wellesley […] sent down all his carriages, servants, staff officers, and general establishment to receive his noble supercessor at the waterside.