Apr. 15th, 2026 06:48 am
coadjutor
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prettygoodwordcoadjutor (koh-uh-JOO-ter, koh-AJ-uh-ter) - n., an assistant; esp. an assistant to an bishop or other ecclesiastic; esp. an assistant bishop with the right of succession.
Most often used in the Anglican Church, but also elsewhere. In the Chalet School books, it's used by Joey Maynard nee Bettany to describe the live-in nurse/nanny (a Tyrolean) who helps raise her ridiculously large family. (I suspect the implication of right of succession was not intended here.) Note that there is a (now even rarer) feminine form, coadjutress, that she could have also used. This is an old one: to Middle English form coadjutour, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin coadjutor, from Latin co(n)-, with + adjūtor, helper, from adjūvāre, to help.
---L.
Most often used in the Anglican Church, but also elsewhere. In the Chalet School books, it's used by Joey Maynard nee Bettany to describe the live-in nurse/nanny (a Tyrolean) who helps raise her ridiculously large family. (I suspect the implication of right of succession was not intended here.) Note that there is a (now even rarer) feminine form, coadjutress, that she could have also used. This is an old one: to Middle English form coadjutour, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin coadjutor, from Latin co(n)-, with + adjūtor, helper, from adjūvāre, to help.
---L.
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