coroner
noun
an officer, as of a county or municipality, whose chief function is to investigate by inquest, as before a jury, any death not clearly resulting from natural causes.
coronership
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a word derived from
coroner.
Example Sentences
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There had been talk of abolishing the coronership, Corey said, and Ten Euyck had run for it.
From "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy
Broom, who had been deprived of his coronership for arresting North and Pritchard, the royalist mayor, was re-instated in January, 1690.1674 The siege of Londonderry, April-July, 1689.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
Well, all these recent scandals in the Department are making them remove Simmonds; they want somebody beyond the reach of graft; and Ten Euyck has resigned his coronership.
From "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy
