Lexicographical Neighbors of Providors
Literary usage of Providors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century) by J[ean Adrien Antoine] J[ules] Jusserand (1890)
"... pour nous" ("takers for us"), should not take unless they had " new letters
from us," which shows the existence of false providors as in England. ..."
2. Maryland Historical Magazine by Maryland Historical Society (1919)
"bravery by his commanding officer and was recommended for the Distinguished
Service Cross. He was buried at providors- Sur-Meuse. ..."
3. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"5 Dutch factors or providors are come over to buy up corn, hay, oates, &c.
to the value of 60000^. for the confederate army. On Sunday last a sword cutler ..."
4. Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland: To which is Added by Richard Franck (1821)
"... the complement and resolution of their armed men ; their arms also, ammunition
and artillery ; what stock of provisions is stored in their providors; ..."
5. The Miscellaneous Tracts of the Late William Withering: To which is Prefixed by William Withering, Torbern Bergman (1822)
"... and received every facility which the Avizo, or royal mandate, to the respective
providors could insure ; notwithstanding which, what would have been ..."
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