"avoyer" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French avoyer; see also avoué, avouer.",
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          "ref": "1800, Joseph Planta, The History of the Helvetic Confederacy, Volume 2, page 257:",
          "text": "The avoyer in office presided both in the council and senate, in each of which he had no regular, but only a casting vote: the great seal of the republic was in his custody; and a provincial jurisdiction was annexed to his station.",
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          "text": "1809, Unnamed translator, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Travels in the Two Sicilies and Some Parts of the Apennines, in John Pinkerton, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, Volume 5, page 717,\nThe reigning avoyer, with a ſceptre in his hand, pronounces an harangue; then delivering up the ſceptre and ſeals, reſigns his dignity, and receives the thanks of the aſſembly, by the mouth of the attorney-general, for his zeal and attention during the year of his government."
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