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  • noun Alternative form of counselor.

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Examples

  • When I was turned down, I became a Guardian Ad Litem which depressed me, then a CYO counsellour, then I served turkey in a homeless shelter every Thanksgiving, then finally, I pounced on being a poll worker, being appointed Clerk of a polling station three years running.

    A Sunday coffeehouse. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Curiously, the professor-counsellour of the lefty student club here at the University of Miami declined to support the lefty student club-led protest at the treatment of mostly Haitian, indo-Hispanic janitors at the Coral Gables campus.

    "We think the ad's authors were right to give voice to the students quoted, whose suffering is real." Ann Althouse 2007

  • A great counsellour somewhat forgetting his modestie, vsed these words:

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Philosopher, and well trained courtier and counsellour make another (but fained and vntrue) of the childhood of _Cyrus_ king of _Persia_, neuertheles both to one effect, that is for example and good information of the posteritie.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • A great counsellour somewhat forgetting his modestie, vsed these words: Gods lady I reckon my selfe as good a man as he you talke of, and yet I am not able to do so.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • Also as Theucidides wrate a worthy and veritable historie, of the warres betwixt the Athenians and the Peloponeses: so did Zenophon, a most graue Philosopher, and well trained courtier and counsellour make another (but fained and vntrue) of the childhood of Cyrus king of Persia, neuertheles both to one effect, that is for example and good information of the posteritie.

    The Arte of English Poesie 1569

  • The letters of Sinan Bassa chiefe counsellour to Sultan Murad

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • From whose lippes I haue seene to proceede more graue and naturall eloquence, then from all the Oratours of Oxford or Cambridge, but all is as it is handled, and maketh no matter whether the same eloquence be naturall to them or artificiall (though I thinke rather naturall) yet were they knowen to be learned and not vnskilfull of th'arte, when they were yonger men: and as learning and arte teacheth a schollar to speake, so doth it also teach a counsellour, and aswell an old man as a yong, and

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • The letters of Sinan Bassa chiefe counsellour to Sultan Murad Can the Grand

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584

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