prentice
1 Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of prentice
1250–1300; Middle English; aphetic form of apprentice
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However, I'm clined to think such words as fulgent, prentice, jangled and pression are Bare Roots rather than Lost Positives.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I would have to continue to seem a willing prentice until I could complete my real mission here.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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The smith’s prentice jumped backward and hit a table, knocking it over and almost falling to the ground himself.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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Such practices, however, she kept from her young prentice, and as far as she was able she taught him honest craft.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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