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- adjective Pertaining to a
provost .
Etymologies
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From provost + -orial.
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Examples
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Was it because the sky was gloomy? because the buckle of his old sword-beltanother relic of Montlhérywas clasped too tight, and girded up his fair, round, provostorial port in all too military a fashionor because he had just seen a band of tattered varlets, who had jeered at him as they passed below his windows walking four abreast, in doublets without shirts, in hats without brims, and wallet and bottle hanging at their sides?
I. An Impartial Glance at the Ancient Magistracy. Book VI 1917
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