supersessor

== English == === Alternative forms === supercessor === Etymology === From the participle stem of Latin supersedēre (“to supersede”). === Noun === supersessor (plural supersessors) Someone or something that supersedes another. [from 19th c.] 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 401: Lord Wellesley […] sent down all his carriages, servants, staff officers, and general establishment to receive his noble supercessor at the waterside.