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- noun Obsolete form of
conqueror .
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Examples
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“O conquerour of Brutes Albyon,” he added, “which that by lyne and free eleccion been verray kyng, this song to yow I sende, and ye, that mowen alle oure harmes amende, have mynde upon my supplicacion.”
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Whereupon the Phrophet seeing himselfe in such extremitie, fell to his prayers, and they say, that God hauing compassion vpon his deare friend and prophet, heard him, and sent him infinite thousands of angels, wherewith returning to the battell, they conquered and ouercame the conquerour.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The mariage of the daughter of Harald, slaine by William the conquerour, vnto Ieruslaus duke of Russia, taken out of the 9. booke of the Danish historie written by Saxo Grammaticus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And Alexander Magnus himselfe that great conquerour had nothing beene spoken of, had not Q. Curtius, or some other like by his learned stile reuiued the remembrance of him, and called backe his doings to his posteritie.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Alexa [n] der, the great and migh - tie conquerour, began the Epi - stle of his Booke in these woor - des.
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The sayd noble Ientylmen instantly requyred me t'emprynte thystorye of the sayd noble kyng and conquerour king Arthur and of his knyghtes, _wyth thystorye of the saynt greal_, and of the deth and endynge of the sayd Arthur; Affermyng that
The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan
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Thus they continued playing and dauncing according to the time of the musicke, with greate pleasure, solace, and applause, vntill the King of the siluer Nymphes was victour and conquerour.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Thus playing and coursing vp and downe, the first continued still conquerour.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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He himself objected only to the alteration of free to brave, in the passage where he says that Edward “departed with the glory due to the conquerour of a free people.”
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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He says, “to call the Scots brave would only add to the glory of their conquerour.”
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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