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provisors

provisors is the plural of provisor.

Meaning of provisor

Noun

provisor (plural provisors)

  1. A deputy of a Roman Catholic bishop.
    • The trials were prompt and at the rendering of sentence a consulta de fe or assembly of experts was convoked, consisting of lawyers and the provisor of the bishopric, thus recognizing the necessity of concurrent action on the part of the episcopal jurisdiction.1906, Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of Spain, volume 1, New York: MacMillan, page 163
  2. The holder of a papal provision.
  3. One who provides; a purveyor.

Questions about provisors

What is provisors the plural of?
Provisors is the plural of provisor.

Words near provisors in the dictionary

  1. provisoes
  2. provisor
  3. provisories
  4. provisorily
  5. provisorium
  6. provisors
  7. provisorship
  8. provisorships
  9. provisory
  10. provisos
  11. provisour

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Adapted from Wiktionary: provisors (page history and authors); provisor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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