juryman
Americannoun
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jurymen
plural
noun
Gender
See -man.
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Origin of juryman
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Any book, therefore, which so effectively as Mr. Wellman's awakens a citizen to his duties as a juryman, is important and destined to remain important.
From Time Magazine Archive
Franchot Tone got a baleful malevolence into his part as a juryman determined on hanging the defendant, while Robert Cummings was bland and believable as the juror who changes everyone's mind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because the grandfather does not trade actively, the grandson was accepted as No. 2 juryman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Director Lomax was in a San Francisco court serving as juryman in the $1,800,000 suit of its onetime Board Chairman L. E. W. Pioda against Golden State Milk Products Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Bates said, "the man show'd his good sense—best juryman on the whole panel."
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley
Another case, he said, involved the time-honored stratagem of getting the right jury and a twist on a line from the English poet Alexander Pope, “Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2019
In “The Rape of the Lock,” first published in 1712, Alexander Pope wrote this chilling couplet: The hungry judges soon the sentence sign And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 6, 2012
After eight days and 52 ballots, the exhausted jurymen turned in a split verdict, 9 to 3 for Beecher.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the bac jurymen finished tabulating the results, Denise learned she had passed second on a list of twelve with an assez bien after her name.
From Time Magazine Archive
And off pelted one of the jurymen in search of the bag.
From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Richard Marsh
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