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- noun Plural form of
continuator .
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Examples
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Welsh patriot-scholars now held themselves — and not the English — to be the continuators of the originary Britons; it was the Welsh
The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism 2006
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The two main factions of the Party, strug gling with each other for the succession to Lenin, elaborated Leninism in contradictory ways, each claiming to be the true continuators of Lenin.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas BORIS SOUVARINE 1968
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Bollandus and his continuators, have given us the _Acta Sanctorum_, enriched with curious remarks and dissertations, in forty-one large volumes in folio, to the 5th day of September.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Benedictin authors of the new treatise On the Diplomatique, [16] and the continuators of the Literary History of France, [17] regard it as undoubted that Sulpicius Severus was a monk at Marseilles before his death.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Jesuits, the continuators of Bollandus, show, by the precision of their researches, that they are sincere lovers of truth, but we do not see that they endeavor to diminish the number of miracles: "They have no idea of taking them for fictions; nothing astonishes them in the lives of the friends of God, provided it be well attested."
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe
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Some are continuators of the old style, and others are reformers; some there are, filled with the dreamy spirit of the Anglo-Saxons; there are others who care little for dreams and theories, who are of the world, and will not leave the earth; some who sing, others who hum, others who talk.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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The Minnesingers have found heirs and continuators in the modern writers of Germany.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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The learned Jesuits, the continuators of Bollandus, show, by the precision of their researches, that they are sincere lovers of truth, but we do not see that they endeavor to diminish the number of miracles: “They have no idea of taking them for fictions; nothing astonishes them in the lives of the friends of God, provided it be well attested.”
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917
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It has been shown above how the Bishop of Lyons declared that the continuators of the Apostolic ministry were the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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"Christ-Herre-Chronik", from its opening words, was subsequently still further amalgamated with Rudolf's version and amplified by various continuators, notably one Heinrich von München (fourteenth century).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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