Difference between ancestor and predecessor
Definitions
noun
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Examples
Their ancestors might have looked a little like colugos.
On these relics of antiquity and of ancestorial memorials devolving on Dr. Jefferson, he sought for a place of deposit for them, suitable to their dignity, their character, and their times.
Ray was knocking them down one by one, unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down.
Definitions
noun
- one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
Examples
Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity.
Parker also said that much of what Rhee achieved in contract talks already existed in D.C. law but was not used by her predecessors, including the power to weaken seniority protections for teachers who are "excessed," or let go from their jobs because of school closures.
She probably didn't appreciate that the master was without jurisdiction to make that order since her predecessor had obtained it.
