Meaning of gerent | Babel Free

Definitions

A manager.

rare

Equivalents

Examples

“Yet Zeus, howbeit most absolute of will, Shall turn⟳ to meekness,—such a marriage-rite He holds in preparation, which anon Shall thrust him headlong from his gerent seat, And leave⟳ no track behind!”

“The "college," an institution of which the Reverend Mr. Easy is the gerent, was founded as Mr. Jeaffreson makes it pleasantly appear⟳, by an "old woman," one Lady Arabella Howard, who died at the rip age of ninety-three, bequeathing large landed estates for the support⟳ and instruction of the poor in the highly favoured vicinity of Farnham Cobb.”

“On this account the people who were the gerents of this Sovereignty were brought by a disposition of Divine Providence into contact⟳ with the Hebrew people, and made by this means into instruments for the diffusion of the true monotheistic religion.”

“The process⟳ of secularisation is very clearly the process⟳ by which the gerent claimed his rights after being long suppressed by the authority of the Church.”

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