triumvir
Americannoun
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Roman History. one of three officers or magistrates mutually exercising the same public function.
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one of three persons associated in any office or position of authority.
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Origin of triumvir
1570–80; < Latin: literally, one man of three, back formation from trium virōrum of three men
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Sixty-one-year-old Triumvir Orozco, invited to exhibit with the youngsters, flatly refused.
From Time Magazine Archive
After finishing Fools for Scandal, Producer LeRoy, a son-in-law of Triumvir Harry M. Warner, left the family plot for a production berth at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, safe from barbed thrusts about nepotism.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1932 some one picked The Triumvir, for which Mrs. Payne Whitney had paid the highest price of the year, but Colonel Bradley won just the same.
From Time Magazine Archive
Triumvir Sequeiros proclaimed Rivera's show unnecessary and based on an idea that was "old and a failure."
From Time Magazine Archive
Is he so great—to be dreaded, abhorrèd, Single antagonist, braving God's wrath, Bearing foul Babylon's seal on his forehead, Chosen Triumvir with Sin and with Death?
From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar
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