authoritie

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A form of authority — Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right.

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Meanings

nounauthoritie (plural authorities)

plural authorities

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of authority.

    This Lyſander was of great authoritie and eſtimation amongeſt them in the citie: Mandroclidas was also very wiſe, and carefull, about any matter of counsell, and with his wiſedom and policy, very valiant:[…]

    1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851
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Chicago

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