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Word Meanings - INDIFFERENTIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One governed by indifferentism.

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  • GOVERNORSHIP
    The office of a governor.
  • GOVERNABLENESS
    The quality of being governable; manageableness.
  • GOVERNANCE
    Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.
  • GOVERNMENTAL
    Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
  • GOVERNMENT
    The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
  • GOVERNING
    Requiring a particular case. (more info) 1. Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state. Jay.
  • GOVERNANTE
    A governess. Sir W. Scott.
  • GOVERNABILITY
    Governableness.
  • GOVERNOR
    A pilot; a steersman. (more info) gouverneur, fr. L. gubernator steersman, ruler, governor. See 1. One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of
  • GOVERNESS
    A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.
  • GOVERNAL; GOVERNAIL
    Management; mastery. Chaucer. Spenser.
  • GOVERN
    To require to be in a particular case; as, a transitive verb governs a noun in the objective case; or to require (a particular case); as, a transitive verb governs the objective case. (more info) 1. To direct and control, as the actions or conduct
  • INDIFFERENTISM
    See IDENTISM (more info) 1. State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism. The indifferentism
  • GOVERNOR GENERAL
    A governor who has lieutenant or deputy governors under him; as, the governor general of Canada, of India.
  • GOVERNABLE
    Capable of being governed, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient. Locke.
  • MISGOVERNED
    Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
  • UNGOVERNABLE
    Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions. -- Un*gov"ern*a*bly, adv. Goldsmith.
  • MISGOVERNMENT
    Bad government; want of government. Shak.
  • RELAY GOVERNOR
    A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle.
  • MISGOVERN
    To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country. Knolles.
  • SUBGOVERNOR
    A subordinate or assistant governor.
  • MISGOVERNANCE
    Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior. Chaucer. Spenser.

 

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