Definition of Civil leader

1. Noun. A leader in municipal affairs.

Exact synonyms: Civic Leader
Generic synonyms: Leader

Lexicographical Neighbors of Civil Leader

civil censorship
civil contempt
civil day
civil death
civil defense
civil discourse
civil disobedience
civil disorders
civil enforcement officer
civil enforcement officers
civil engineer
civil engineering
civil engineers
civil law
civil laws
civil leader (current term)
civil liberties
civil liberty
civil marriage
civil order
civil partnerships
civil power
civil procedure
civil right
civil rights
civil rights activist
civil rights leader
civil rights worker
civil servant

Literary usage of Civil leader

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rise of Religious Liberty in America: A History by Sanford Hoadley Cobb (1902)
"Its civil leader for many years was Theophilus Eaton, one of a company of English merchants, rich and educated, who with decided Puritan principles ..."

2. Commentaries on the Laws of the Ancient Hebrews: With an Introductory Essay by Enoch Cobb Wines (1855)
"... civil leader. Certainly he had the mental gifts, which eloquence requires, for he was a poet, and dealt in the living images and passionate sentiments, ..."

3. The Life of Young Sir Henry Vane, Governor of Massachusetts Bay, and Leader by James Kendall Hosmer (1889)
"But while a high position is claimed for Vane as a civil leader, it must be distinctly said that his limitations were no less marked than his abilities. ..."

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