All 4 Uses of
successor
in
Wuthering Heights
- For a few days, I said, he seemed regardless of the puny successor to the departed: that coldness melted as fast as snow in April, and ere the tiny thing could stammer a word or totter a step it wielded a despot's sceptre in his heart.†
p. 134.1successor = replacement
- Yes, Nell,' he added, when they had departed, 'my son is prospective owner of your place, and I should not wish him to die till I was certain of being his successor.†
p. 151.8
- That housekeeper left, if I recollect rightly, two years after he came; and another, whom I did not know, was her successor; she lives there still.†
p. 154.3 *
- I'm acting generously to your master: his young chit has no expectations, and should she second my wishes she'll be provided for at once as joint successor with Linton.'†
p. 156.5
Definition:
replacement -- typically a person who takes the job of another person, but it can also be a thing that replaces something else