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coadjutors

coadjutors is the plural of coadjutor.

Meaning of coadjutor

Noun

coadjutor (plural coadjutors)

  1. An assistant or helper.
    • Then have the lady patronesses and their active coadjutors, whether noble or ignoble, all the work of beating up for recruits to go over again.1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 174
  2. An assistant to a bishop.
    • When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem1842, John Henry Newman, The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'abbé Fleury

Questions about coadjutors

What is coadjutors the plural of?
Coadjutors is the plural of coadjutor.

Words near coadjutors in the dictionary

  1. coadjuting
  2. coadjutive
  3. coadjutor
  4. coadjutor bishop
  5. coadjutor bishops
  6. coadjutors
  7. coadjutorship
  8. coadjutorships
  9. coadjutress
  10. coadjutresses
  11. coadjutrices

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