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supercessor

supercessor is the alternative form of supersessor.

Meaning of supersessor

Noun

supersessor (plural supersessors)

  1. Someone or something that supersedes another.
    • Lord Wellesley […] sent down all his carriages, servants, staff officers, and general establishment to receive his noble supercessor at the waterside.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 401

Forms of supercessor

pluralsupercessors

Origin of supercessor

Most likely a misconstruction involving "cede".

Questions about supercessor

What is supercessor the alternative form of?
Supercessor is the alternative form of supersessor.

Words near supercessor in the dictionary

  1. supercenturial
  2. supercerebral
  3. superceremonious
  4. supercession
  5. supercessions
  6. supercessor
  7. supercessors
  8. superchallenge
  9. superchallenges
  10. superchannel
  11. superchannels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: supercessor (page history and authors); supersessor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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