prorex

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noun

viceroy

OriginLatin prorex →
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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoleteviceroy

    Nay, pray you let him ſtay a greater Fits Menaphon, than warring with a Thiefe: Create him Prorex of Affrica, That he may win the Babilonians hearts, Which will reuolt from Perſean gouernment, Unleſſe they haue a wiſer King than you.

    c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i

Origin

  1. Latinprorex
  2. Englishprorex

Borrowed from Latin prorex.

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APA

prorex. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prorex

MLA

“prorex.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prorex. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prorex,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prorex.

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