SUPERSESSION

supersedure, supersession

(noun) act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

supersession (countable and uncountable, plural supersessions)

The act of superseding; the fact of having been superseded.

Anagrams

• suspensories

Source: Wiktionary


Su`per*ses"sion, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. supersession. See Supersede.]

Definition: The act of superseding, or the state of being superseded; supersedure. The general law of diminishing return from land would have undergone, to that extent, a temporary supersession. J. S. Mill.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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