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- noun The
chief magistrate of aSpanish town .
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The term "corregidor" is normally associated with an island in the Philippines that witnessed one of the most dramatic and tragic episodes of the Second World War -- when a starving, outgunned, and outnumbered band of American and Filipino soldiers finally surrendered to a Japanese invasion force after heroic but futile resistance.
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez: a politically correct "corrector" (1768–1829) 2008
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The term "corregidor" is normally associated with an island in the Philippines that witnessed one of the most dramatic and tragic episodes of the Second World War -- when a starving, outgunned, and outnumbered band of American and Filipino soldiers finally surrendered to a Japanese invasion force after heroic but futile resistance.
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez: a politically correct "corrector" (1768–1829) 2008
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I knew that there was an officer in Spain called corregidor, which means a corrector in English, or one who punishes.
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Frederick Marryat 1820
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I knew that there was an officer in Spain called corregidor, which means a corrector in English, or one who punishes.
Peter Simple Frederick Marryat 1820
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“El corregidor” was the basis of the ballet “The three-cornered hat,” but it had, according to the Post-Classical Ensemble, never been staged in the United States until Gil-Ordonez led it at BAM on the 17th.
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But the focus here is not on the corregidor but on his wife, who bore the title of corregidora.
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez: a politically correct "corrector" (1768–1829) 2008
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But the focus here is not on the corregidor but on his wife, who bore the title of corregidora.
Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez: a politically correct "corrector" (1768–1829) 2008
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The wife of the corregidor (magistrate) of Queretaro, she was one of the plotters in the plans for the insurrection.
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The wife of the corregidor (magistrate) of Queretaro, she was one of the plotters in the plans for the insurrection.
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The corregidor himself waited upon us, and a great rush-bottomed arm-chair was ostentatiously bolstered into our room by our landlady, for the accommodation of that important personage.
The Alhambra 2002
yarb commented on the word corregidor
Citation on alguazil.
September 12, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word corregidor
Previously unknown to me except as the name of the island in the Pacific. So here's a usage:
"Upon receiving the letter, the region's highest Crown authority, Don Juan Bautista Fortuno, the corregidor, agreed to testify in the case."
Amy Butler Greenfield, A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (New York: Harper Collins, 2005), 160.
October 6, 2017