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successoral

successoral adjective: pertaining to a successor or succession.

Adjective

successoral (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a successor or succession.
    • In July 1717, a commission established by Orléans to adjudicate the issue had emphatically denied the successoral claims of the two brothers, and the Regent declared himself in a state of ‘happy powerlessness to alienate the crown's domain’.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 47

Origin of successoral

From successor + -al.

Questions about successoral

What does successoral mean?
Successoral means pertaining to a successor or succession.
What part of speech is successoral?
Successoral is an adjective.

Words near successoral in the dictionary

  1. successless
  2. successlessly
  3. successlessness
  4. successor
  5. successor ideology
  6. successoral
  7. successorial
  8. successors
  9. successorship
  10. successorships
  11. successory

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