eleutherarch
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2ADJ.
kind, straight
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out
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noun
The leader of the eleutheri.
Bruhle introduced him to me as the principal of the university, and the Eleutherarch.
He slept with Horrid Mysteries under his pillow, and dreamed of venerable eleutherarchs and ghastly confederates holding midnight conventions in subterranean caves.
The leader of a secret society, usually mysterious and sinister
In contrast to Godwin's Burkean Falkland, however, Ludloe turns out to be a conspirator, a kind of revolutionary eleutherarch straight out of the pages of Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy.
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3Bruhle introduced him to me as the principal of the university, and the Eleutherarch.
WiktionaryHe slept with Horrid Mysteries under his pillow, and dreamed of venerable eleutherarchs and ghastly confederates holding midnight conventions in subterranean caves.
WiktionaryIn contrast to Godwin's Burkean Falkland, however, Ludloe turns out to be a conspirator, a kind of revolutionary eleutherarch straight out of the pages of Robison's Proofs of a Conspiracy.
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