Example Sentences

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He forwent his reputation as a man of science, gave up his assessorship, cleared his desk of everything but the Scriptures.

From The Gist of Swedenborg by Smyth, Julian K.

After the completion of my examinations for the assessorship, my friends at Bonn advised me to enter the service of the Government.

From Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life by Frank, Ulrich

His power is, in fact, supreme, though formally qualified by the assessorship of a senate, who, though entitled to advise, would outstep their bounds did they attempt to direct.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various