Crossword-Solution: PORTREEVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Portreeve | n. | A port warden. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “PORTREEVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Saxon magistrate | 1 answer |
| Magistracy | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
IVENID
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with PORTREEVE (5)
Every man shall have a warrantor to his market transactions and no one shall buy and sell except in a market town; but he shall have the witness of the portreeve or of other men of credit, who can be trusted.
Paul's Church could shut every shop and fill the streets with armed horsemen and soldiers led by a soldier portreeve.
The Conquerer did not interfere with landholding in London, but recognized its independence as a borough in this writ: "William the King greets William, Bishop of London, and Gosfrith the portreeve, and all the burgesses [citizens] of London friendly.
Other names we do not know, unless it be that of Esegar, Harold's staller and portreeve of London, the hero of a doubtful story of negotiations with the approaching enemy.
And apparently at this time, certainly not long afterwards, he issued to the bishop and the portreeve his famous charter for the city, probably drawn up originally in the English language, or if not, certainly with an English translation attached for immediate effect.