antecessor
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.26 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1671, Joseph Glanvill, A Præfatory Answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, London: J. Collins, p. 57, […] the Waldenses[,] Antecessors of the Protestants"
- "Yet who says, I have faith in the existence of George II., as his present Majesty’s antecessor and grandfather?"
- "This, then, is their horrid counsel and device—that each one of their gods should kill his antecessor."
- "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."
- "[…] some, hath iudged wrongfully As in reproche, of our country Deniyng playne, moste noble Brute Our antecessor our stocke and our frute."
- "[…] promises made to Abraham, and to other antecessors of the Iewes,"
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English antecessour, from Anglo-Norman antecessour, Middle French antecesseur, or their etymon Latin antecessor, a compound of ante + cedo + -tor; thus a doublet of ancestor.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: antecessour, antecesseur, antecessor