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magistracy
noun as in jurisdiction
Strongest matches
Strong matches
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Example Sentences
A few years later the presbytery went further than even the magistracy had already done.
I have acted boldly, in the open day, in the presence of the magistracy: there lias been nothing secret or concealed.
Of the nobility not one-tenth, of the magistracy not one-fifth, were favorable to the changes which she wished to introduce.
The law of 412 came in vain to require an interval of ten years before becoming again a candidate for the same magistracy.
But the esteem of his fellow-citizens would not have sufficed, in ordinary times, to have raised him to the first magistracy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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