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Act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior
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supersession
Word definitions for supersession in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supersession \Su`per*ses"sion\, n. [Cf. OF. supersession. See Supersede .] The act of superseding, or the state of being superseded; supersedure.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. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Medieval Latin supersessionem (nominative supersessio ), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin supersedere "sit on top of" (see supersede ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. act of replacing one person or thing by another especially one held to be superior [syn: supersedure ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of supersede; the fact of having been superseded.
Usage examples of supersession.
This is why the Church, beginning around the sixteenth century, was involved in a war on two fronts: fighting regression to magic, and fighting supersession by science.
After some forced conversation Buckingham handed McClellan a paper ordering his supersession by Burnside.
Still excessively abundant, it was dressed in a manner of which the poor lady appeared not yet to have recognised the supersession, with a glossy braid, like a large diadem, on the top of the head, and behind, at the nape of the neck, a dingy rosette like a large button.
And this was so in spite of the multiplying opportunities for grace and lightness afforded by the supersession of steel frame buildings by the strong and flexible neo-concrete materials that were already available.
Education Control in preserving, correcting, and revivifying the progressive process in human affairs had already been manifested by the supersession of the leading personalities of the Basra conference in the World Council by their successors who became the Air Dictatorship.
After 1940 this supersession of home training was renewed in an extensive form.
The greatest of these consequences were the abolition of distance and the supersession of toil by power machinery.
Werner had served the Esterhazys for thirty-two years, and could not be expected to placidly accept his supersession by a young and as yet almost unknown musician.
In this lurked the seeds of the ultimate decay and supersession of every successive religion.
Such a League has for its main purpose the supersession of the old principle of balancing the Powers.
The essential change in the social fabric, as we have analyzed it, is the progressive supersession of the old broad labour base by elaborately organized mechanism, and the obsolescence of the once valid and necessary distinction of gentle and simple.
This was the entire supersession of the linear script, Class A, by another similar but independent form, which has been named Class B.
It is suggested, therefore, that in the supersession of Class A by Class B we have another indication of the dynastic revolution which is supposed to have caused that ruin of the palace which closed the Middle Minoan period.
According to this view, with adequate information it would be possible to trace the mental process in virtue of which arise such expectations of futurity, and to discover the methods of their gradual modification and eventual supersession by generalizations founded on experience more accurate and extensive.
He spoke of class struggle, historical materialism, the supersession of socioeconomic systems in response to technological change and the like.