depositary
noun
one to whom anything is given in trust.
depositaries
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pluralof depositary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He felt they were safe depositaries, just as he would have felt a lonely spot in a wood a secure hiding-place for whatever he wanted to conceal.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
The leading inquiry in the examination of any system of government must, of course, concern primarily the real depositaries and the essential machinery of power.
From Congressional Government A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson
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 William Graham Sumner
Where in these pages are the depositaries of that intelligence without which the movement of life would cease?
From Views and Reviews by Henry James
Unless we suppose that Almighty God curtailed the lives of the chief depositaries of His Word, Timothy will have lived on till a.d.
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon
