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- adjective From
Winchester , England - noun A person from
Winchester , England.
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Examples
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Wintonian chose to speak nonsense, rather than speak harshly of old Joe.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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Green Chamber in the Palace at Westminster, and a dagger being found on the person of the intruder, he confessed that he was there by the order of Beaufort to kill the Prince in the night, showing that the Cardinal was guilty of a double treachery, for he was setting on the heir-apparent at the time to seize his father's crown; nor do Milner and Hook seem to have known that the death of the Duke of Gloucester was principally contrived by Wykeham's successor in the See of Winchester, and that, whether poisoned or not, the Duke was hurried out of the world in a very suspicious manner, one of the first acts of Margaret of Anjou after her coronation being, in conjunction with the Wintonian diocesan to bring about the death of that Prince after arresting him in a
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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