corregidor
noun
the chief magistrate of a town in Spain.
corregidores
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pluralof corregidor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Councils, corregidores, inspectors, and various other instruments of royal power fast sapped the strength of older institutions and gave authority and efficiency to the royal government; but they were expensive and the crown was poor.
From American Nation: a history — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Cheyney, Edward Potts
The Navarrete text has corregidores, town governors appointed by the king.
From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Olson, Julius E.
To replace control by encomenderos, local magistrates called corregidores were introduced.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
These distributions were under the superintendence of the provincial authorities, the corregidores, and the sub-delegados.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina
This American comrade shall bribe his courts, his corregidores.
From The Story of a Mine by Harte, Bret
