Antecessor vs Ancestor - What's the difference?
antecessor | ancestor |
(obsolete) predecessor
* {{quote-book, year=1839, author=Samuel Taylor Coleridge, title=Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4., chapter=, edition=
, passage=Yet who says, I have faith in the existence of George II., as his present Majesty's antecessor and grandfather? }}
* {{quote-book, year=1890, author=Grant Allen, title=The Great Taboo, chapter=, edition=
, passage=This, then, is their horrid counsel and device--that each one of their gods should kill his antecessor . }}
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One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= An earlier type; a progenitor
(legal) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
(figuratively) One who had the same role or function in former times.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Saj Chowdhury, work=BBC Sport
, title=
Ancestor is a descendant of antecessor.
As nouns the difference between antecessor and ancestor
is that antecessor is predecessor while ancestor is one from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.antecessor
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* antecessour (obsolete)Noun
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ancestor
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Alternative forms
* ancestour (obsolete) * auncestor (obsolete) * auncestour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle, passage=The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors .}}