depositaries
- plural of depositary.
Example Sentences
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Lands of the same age contain different fossils, just as depositaries very far distant from each other enclose similar ones.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave
The following, says Mr. Forster, are some of the benefits resulting from the reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts:— That reform has reduced the depositaries for wills in this country from nearly 400 to 40.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
The men, women, and children who compose a society at any time are the unconscious depositaries and transmitters of the mores.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
Nobody could suppose the divines of the day to be the depositaries of an esoteric wisdom which the vulgar were not worthy to criticise.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
Why should they be the sole depositaries of those mysteries by which men's actions can be swayed and moulded?
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
