All 3 Uses of
predecessor
in
Anna Karenina
- The irrigation of these lands in the Zaraisky province had been initiated by the predecessor of Alexey Alexandrovitch's predecessor.†
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- The irrigation of these lands in the Zaraisky province had been initiated by the predecessor of Alexey Alexandrovitch's predecessor.†
Part 3
- Moreover, this new head had the further reputation of being a bear in his manners, and was, according to all reports, a man of a class in all respects the opposite of that to which his predecessor had belonged, and to which Stepan Arkadyevitch had hitherto belonged himself.†
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Definition:
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(predecessor) one who precedes another in time -- such as the previous mayor relative to the current mayor