All 3 Uses of
predecessor
in
David Copperfield
- I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- Oh, what an evening, when I sat down by my fire to a basin of mutton broth, dimpled all over with fat, and thought I was going the way of my predecessor, and should succeed to his dismal story as well as to his chambers, and had half a mind to rush express to Dover and reveal all!†
Chpt 22-24
- So, here was another earthquake of which I became the sport, before I had recovered from the shock of its predecessor!†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(predecessor) one who precedes another in time -- such as the previous mayor relative to the current mayor