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- noun Plural form of adjutor.
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[908] Husbands, love your wives, as fellow-servants of God, as your own body, as the partners of your life, and your co-adjutors in the procreation of children.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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I never saw a man more considerate of those of his co-adjutors who were working immediately with him, nor a man more ready to give them credit with the other chiefs of state.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him Joseph P. Tumulty
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Roe, Thompson and some of their co-adjutors, to prostrate the only
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I never saw a man more considerate of those of his co-adjutors who were working immediately with him, nor a man more ready to give them credit with the other chiefs of state.
Woodrow Wilson as I know Him Tumulty, Joseph P 1921
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Spitalfields by the Rev.Dr. Spratt of Dublin, one of Father Mathew's most jealous co-adjutors; in 1858 we are told a new Roman Catholic
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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In the beginning of this century and the close of the last (1792), about one hundred years ago, Cary, from the old world, and Judson, from the new, together with their co-adjutors, including Lott Cary, the Negro apostle to Africa, started the great practical missionary evangelization of the world.
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After a short "rest-cure" in a sanatorium Tilak returned to the _Kesari_, which, in the hands of his co-adjutors, two other Chitpavan Brahmans, Mr. Kelkar and Mr. Khadilkar, had lost nothing of its vitriolic pungency in his absence.
Indian Unrest Valentine Chirol 1890
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Among them, not one can be found who sought to make a name as a leader, speaker, or writer; not one who was jealous of the reputation of co-adjutors; not one who rewarded adherents with flattery and hurled invectives at dissentients; not one to whom personal flattery was acceptable or personal prominence desirable; not one whose writings betrayed egotism, self-inflation or bombast.
The Grimke Sisters Birney, Catherine H. 1885
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He is now the president of the university, and we trust, under his guidance and his able corps of co-adjutors, its usefulness and fame will rival its former renown.
Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884
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It is proposed merely to efface those factitious characteristics, whose removal will clear away barriers and secure the more rapid improvement of all, by blending their culture, their liberty, and their worship -- showing us men and women as equal units of humanity in its personal ends, but dependent co-adjutors in its social means.
The Friendships of Women William Rounseville Alger 1863
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