All 4 Uses of
successor
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Then, tho' it should be true, he had left many debts, which his successor might be call'd upon to pay.†
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- Now we are not sure that we are arrived at the end of this progression, and at the perfection of spiritual or theological knowledge; and we fear that, if we should once print our confession of faith, we should feel ourselves as if bound and confin'd by it, and perhaps be unwilling to receive farther improvement, and our successors still more so, as conceiving what we their elders and founders had done, to be something sacred, never to be departed from."†
- At length Captain Denny, who was Governor Morris's successor, ventured to disobey those instructions; how that was brought about I shall show hereafter.†
- Temple Franklin and his successors.†
Definition:
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(successor) replacement -- typically a person who takes the job of another person, but it can also be a thing that replaces something else