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coadjutor

(n): an assistant to a bishop
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8 months ago knitandpurl said: Dickensian: from The Old Curiosity Shop, Chapter the Eleventh

"This important step secured, with the assistance of a man of law whom he brought with him for the purpose, the dwarf proceeded to establish himself and his coadjutor in the house, as an assertion of his claim against all comers; and then set about making his quarters comfortable after his own fashion." (p 137 of the Penguin English Library edition)

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