continuatorn.
/kənˈtɪnjuːeɪtə/ 1. One who continues, or maintains continuity.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [noun] > one who maintains continuity
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xvi A way of production which should..contrive the continuation of the species by the destruction of the continuator . View more context for this quotation
1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 247 Louis Philippe I...that dubious continuator of the thirty-five Capets.
1852 H. Newland Lect. Tractarianism 35 Continuators of the apostolic succession indeed, but without spiritual authority.
1866 J. F. Ferrier Lect. Greek Philos. I. xii. 363 Aristotle..was rather fitted to found a new dynasty in philosophy..than to be the continuator of an old one.
2. One who continues or carries forward work begun by another; esp. one who writes a continuation to a literary work.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > one who
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writer of sequels
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1656 P. Heylyn Extraneus Vapulans 100 The Continuator of Stowes Chronicle.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 34 The Author Baker, and his Continuator Philipps.
1770 T. Amory Life John Buncle (new ed.) III. iii. 89 Gabriel Cossart, the continuator, published the other seven volumes in 1672.
1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. 153 Heine..is the most important German successor and continuator of Goethe in Goethe's most important line of activity.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxv. 577 In our own Florence, in his southern continuator and his northern interpolator, we read the unvarnished tale.
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