Coadjutor
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Coadjutor is a noun meaning An assistant or helper.
Meaning
An assistant or helper.
More Meanings
- (ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop.
Example Sentences
The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor’s white, startled face.
Then have the lady patronesses and their active coadjutors, whether noble or ignoble, all the work of beating up for recruits to go over again.
August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.
When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem
Word Forms
- coadjutors
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include coadjutant, adjutor, coadjutorship, adjutant, adjutrix, adjutancy.
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