gerent
Americannoun
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gerents
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of gerent
1570–80; < Latin gerent- (stem of gerēns ), present participle of gerere to bear, conduct, manage, equivalent to ger- bear + -ent- -ent
Example Sentences
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He refused to bend the knee to superstition— to lend a patient ear to earth's self-constituted vice- gerents of Omniscience.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann
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