continuator
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of continuator
First recorded in 1640–50; continuate + -or 2
Example Sentences
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"I liked to feel that I was above all a continuator," Hadrian writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2010
Koch, Rivol. vol. i. p. 280., states positively that Julin was Wollin, and was destroyed by Waldemar I. in 1175, for which he seems to rely upon Helmold, or at least his continuator, Arnold.
From Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 by Various
It is by this popular humor that Gorky is the continuator of the work of Gogol; this is especially noticeable in "The Fair at Goltva."
From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky
Had Zaist been informed of this he would rather have directed both his eulogies and his complaints to Natali, than to Baldinucci or his continuator.
From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Antonio Lanzi
Under the year 1356 the continuator of the chronicle of Nangis notes that the increase of jewelled belts had mightily enhanced the price of pearls.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
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