successionist

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English

Etymology

From succession +‎ -ist.

Noun

successionist (plural successionists)

  1. One who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.
    1. (religion) One who insists that only apostolic succession is valid.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “successionist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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