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Definition of Superiors
1. superior [n] - See also: superior
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superiors
Literary usage of Superiors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"If the congregation is not divided into provinces, the superiors of important
houses and one delegate from each house take the place of the provincials and ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The latter consists of the provincial, his councillors, and the superiors of
important houses, accompanied by a delegate from each house. ..."
3. Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism: A Translation from the by Barruel (1799)
"... to be conducted by Superiors who have fo carefully guided them hitherto, ...
to obey our Superiors is in fect only fulfilling our own inclination—by the ..."
4. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"SECTION I. Of obedience to our superiors. Our superiors are set over us in affairs
of the world, or the affairs of the soul and things pertaining to ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"CHAP, encouragement to the oui laws of the province, to every ^^__^ fugitive who
had escaped from the injustice or justice of his superiors ; and these ..."
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