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Successor   /səksˈɛsər/   Listen
Successor

noun
1.
A person who follows next in order.  Synonym: replacement.
2.
A thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone.
3.
A person who inherits some title or office.  Synonym: heir.





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"Successor" Quotes from Famous Books



... which, also, was one of the ends and uses whereunto this rite of laying on of hands was applied by the apostles themselves, as Chemnitius showeth.(1024) And so Joshua was designed and known to the people of Israel as the man appointed to be the successor of Moses, by that very sign, that Moses laid his ...
— The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Gillespie
... the courts of Prussia, Austria, and Hanover. Early in 1706 he was one of the Commissioners for arranging the Union with Scotland, and in September of that year he was forced by the Whigs on Queen Anne, as successor to Sir Charles Hedges in the office of Secretary of State. Steele held under him the office of Gazetteer, to which he was appointed in the following May. In 1710 Sunderland shared in the political reverse suffered by Marlborough. ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele
... he encountered hostility. Of course he had many friends—some of them powerful like Cosmo, all of them faithful and sincere. But against the power of Rome what could they do? Cosmo dared no more than remonstrate, and ultimately his successor had to refrain from even this, so enchained and bound was the spirit of the rulers of those days; and so when his day of tribulation came he stood alone and helpless in the ...
— Pioneers of Science • Oliver Lodge
... be in an exalted position that gave her a great deal more power over them than even I possessed: they served her, not me. From time to time there occurred to me the thought that my own position in the household was rather an ignoble one, and that I was a very weak and incompetent successor to baronial privileges, to say nothing of rights. A real baron would have had her out of there before you could mention half of Jack Robinson, and there wouldn't have been any sleep lost over distracting puzzles. I deplored ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... when the first successor of St. Peter took his seat on the pontifical throne until the interregnum which now occurred, had so great an agitation been shown as there was at this moment, when, as we have shown, all these people ...
— The Borgias - Celebrated Crimes • Alexandre Dumas, Pere


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