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governor
(redirected from Governour)

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governor noun caretaker, director, elected official, executive, executive leader, government official, highest state official, politician, potentate, public official, statesman
Associated concepts: executive branch of government
See also: caretaker, director, pedagogue, principal, superintendent

GOVERNOR. The title of the executive magistrate in each state and territory of the United States. Under the names of the particular states, the reader will find some of the duties of the governor of such state.



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Sir Thomas Elyot's The Boke Named the Governour (1531), for example, was not meant solely or even primarily to instruct a king.
The title of this slender book does not indicate that it focuses narrowly on the social aspects of the Horatian conjunction of pleasure and profit in Elyot's Boke Named the Governour, Sidney's Defence of Poetry, and the second book of Spenser's The Faerie Queene.
In a later scene, Caiphas and Anna, the high priests of Jerusalem, praise him as the best governour and Anna adds that they
 
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