Meaning of archgovernor | Babel Free

Definitions

A chief governor.

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Examples

“What then shall I say⟳ here, O ye principal posts of religion, O ye archgovernors of Christ’s church?”

““Your ladyship,” answered the page, “is the most worthy wife of a thrice worthy archgovernor, and as proof of this truth, take⟳ this letter and this present⟳.””

“Imagine⟳ the reaction, then, when New Yorkers learned in 1688 that their colony (as well as New Jersey) had been annexed, by royal fiat, to the Dominion of New England (a megacolony created by James II two years before). Imagine⟳ the anxiety in August 1688 when Edmund Andros returned to New York as archgovernor of the dominion, thereby supplanting Dongan, who had been recalled.”

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