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  • noun Plural form of coadjutor.

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Examples

  • Only two of the ladies here can be called coadjutors, one being poor little Genevieve Durant, the other the bookseller's daughter, Clarissa Richardson, who made all the rest fly off.

    The Young Step-Mother Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Daily News warned on November 9 that if James G. Blaine, the Republican candidate, "and his coadjutors had the power... they would have all election returns sent to Washington to be counted by the Republican officials there and that would be the end of the American dream of liberty under representative government."

    Hugh Rawson: Chasing the American Dream Hugh Rawson 2010

  • Daily News warned on November 9 that if James G. Blaine, the Republican candidate, "and his coadjutors had the power ... they would have all election returns sent to Washington to be counted by the Republican officials there and that would be the end of the American dream of liberty under representative government."

    Hugh Rawson: Chasing the American Dream Hugh Rawson 2010

  • Daily News warned on November 9 that if James G. Blaine, the Republican candidate, "and his coadjutors had the power ... they would have all election returns sent to Washington to be counted by the Republican officials there and that would be the end of the American dream of liberty under representative government."

    Hugh Rawson: Chasing the American Dream Hugh Rawson 2010

  • Morevoer, if the other three bishops cannnot be auxiliaries or coadjutors, they cannot properly "share in the cares of the diocesan bishop" Canon 407.3 or have the other functions and duties mentioned under Article 3 of Chapter II, Section II of the Code.

    Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009 2009

  • Is there no method of punishing them and their coadjutors for a conspiracy?

    New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

  • The Editors of your country are of such a soft and passive disposition, that they have frequently done themselves great disgrace by giving up the coadjutors who first brought them into public notice and public favour, and suffering their names to be used by those quacks and impostors who live upon the ideas of others.

    The Monastery 2008

  • “I knew not, however,” he continued, “at the time I was induced to give my consent, with whom I was to be associated; nor could I have imagined the Dean so little conversant with the distinctions of the world, as to disgrace me with inferior coadjutors: but the moment I learnt the state of the affair, I insisted upon withdrawing both my name and countenance.”

    Cecilia 2008

  • Dean, indeed, never committed so strange an impropriety as that of nominating Mr Harrel and Mr Briggs coadjutors with Mr Delvile.

    Cecilia 2008

  • Great, in the meanwhile, had been the turmoil of the good Dame Elspeth and her coadjutors, to prepare for the fitting reception of the Father

    The Monastery 2008

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