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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unmitre .
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Examples
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With all the difficulties to be encountered in obtaining a fair value for mineral in a crude state, the poor priest realized from his adventure over $3,000,000, which was considered a very fair fortune for an unmitred ecclesiastic.
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At the second session Gregory X owing to the excessive numbers rejected the proxies of chapters, abbots, and unmitred priors, except those who had been summoned by name.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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They governed the colony, these "unmitred popes of a pope-hating commonwealth," yet not without storm and stress; and of all their difficulties, the quarrel with the freemen over the distribution of political power was far from being the most perplexing.
Beginnings of the American People Carl Lotus Becker 1909
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The other ranks (three or four to a mess) equal to a Knight, unmitred Abbot, Dean, Master of the Rolls, under Judges, Doctor of
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Nor misdeem me, that I, humble, unmitred priest, should be thus bold.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Nor misdeem me, that I, humble, unmitred priest, should be thus bold.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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