Coadjutor

Definitions

1. An assistant or helper.
2. An assistant to a bishop.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor’s white, startled face⟳.”

“Hitherto I have⟳ been but the witness, little more; and I should hardly think⟳ now to take⟳ another tone, that of your coadjutor, for the time, did I not perceive in you,—at the crisis too—a troubled hesitancy, proceeding, I doubt⟳ not, from the clash of military duty with moral scruple—scruple vitalized by compassion.”

“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 Jerusalem”

“August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.”

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