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synonyms for priors

  • ancestor
  • forebear
  • antecedent
  • forerunner
  • former
  • precursor
  • prior
  • prototype
  • antecessor
  • foregoer
  • previous
On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to priors, such as: ancestor, forebear, antecedent, forerunner, former, and precursor.

antonyms for priors

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  • derivative
  • descendant
  • successor
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How to use priors in a sentence

They are considered, I believe, to be memorials of the priors of Anglesey, a neighbouring religious house.
NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 69, FEBRUARY 22, 1851VARIOUS
Albatrosses followed in our wake, accompanied by their smaller satellites—Cape hens, priors, Lesson's and Wilson petrels.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSON
Thus the monastery grew through successive priors, till it was one of the largest religious houses in London.
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN LONDONMRS. E. T. COOK.
The two Franciscan stalwarts remained in the Priors' chapel.
THE STORY OF FLORENCEEDMUND G. GARDNER
The Priors folk will then go apart and judge the accused, a few of the hundredors going with them to act as assessors.
DOMESDAY BOOK AND BEYONDFREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND
And even under hard and exacting priors the monks could take no more than their rentals, which were so small.
THE FIFTH QUEEN CROWNEDFORD MADOX FORD
While here, he received a letter from the Priors of his birthplace, Città della Pieve, inviting him to paint a fresco there.
PERUGINOSELWYN BRINTON
The Priors of Noyes were bound to keep it in good repair by reason of the lands they held on both sides of it.
NOTWITHSTANDINGMARY CHOLMONDELEY
The Abbots and Priors had sworn to the supremacy, but had sworn reluctantly, with secret reservations to save their consciences.
THE DIVORCE OF CATHERINE OF ARAGONJ.A. FROUDE
Over some of our Scotch lazar-houses, chaplains, and religious officers with the high-church title of priors, were placed.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL ESSAYS VOL. 2JAMES Y. SIMPSON
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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