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eleutherarchs

eleutherarchs is the plural of eleutherarch.

Meaning of eleutherarch

Noun

eleutherarch (plural eleutherarchs)

  1. (gothic) The leader of the eleutheri.
    • Bruhle introduced him to me as the principal of the university, and the Eleutherarch.1813, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, The Memoirs of Prince Alexy Haimatoff, London: T. Hookham, jun., and E.T. Hookham, page 173
  2. The leader of a secret society, usually mysterious and sinister
    • In contrast to Godwin's Burkean Falkland, however, Ludloe turns out to be a conspirator, a kind of revolutionary eleutherarch straight out of the pages of Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy.2000, Nigel Leask, “Irish Republicans and Gothic Eleutherarchs: Pacific Utopias in the Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone and Charles Brockden Brown”, in Huntington Library Quarterly, volume 63, number...

Questions about eleutherarchs

What is eleutherarchs the plural of?
Eleutherarchs is the plural of eleutherarch.

Words near eleutherarchs in the dictionary

  1. Eleuthera
  2. Eleutherae
  3. Eleutheran
  4. Eleutherans
  5. eleutherarch
  6. eleutherarchs
  7. Eleuthereus
  8. eleutheri
  9. Eleutheria
  10. Eleutherian
  11. Eleutherians

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