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Definition of Preferrers
1. preferrer [n] - See also: preferrer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preferrers
Literary usage of Preferrers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the by Edward Jenks (1922)
"... of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, eg where the Church courts entertained actions
for defamation against preferrers of indictments (1 Edw. Ill (1327) c. ..."
2. Source-book of English History: Leading Documents, Together with by Guy Carleton Lee (1900)
"This Admonition finding small entertainment, (the authors or chief preferrers
thereof being imprisoned), out cometh the Second Admonition, towards the end ..."
3. Certaine Considerations Upon the Government of England by Roger Twysden, John Mitchell Kemble (1849)
"... amongst " les petitions des coes," and that the howse of commons were not the
alone framers of them but preferrers and forwarders, as good servants to ..."
4. The Life and Acts of John Whitgift, D.D., the Third and Last Lord Archbishop by John Strype (1822)
"And the preferrers of this commission had been and were busily occupied to bring
this Hartle- Hartlebury bury, this fair booty, within the compass of it; ..."
5. Essays on Subjects Connected with the Reformation in England by Samuel Roffey Maitland (1899)
"... who shulde be your Quene, what woman you shulde crowne, if you had bene
preferrers of Goddes glorie, ..."
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