"archgovernor" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: archgovernors [plural]
Etymology: arch- + governor Etymology templates: {{pre|en|arch|governor}} arch- + governor Head templates: {{en-noun}} archgovernor (plural archgovernors)
  1. (rare) A chief governor. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-archgovernor-en-noun-K7gyTRJE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with arch-

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1964, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote of La Mancha, New American Library, page 884",
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          "text": "Imagine the reaction, then, when New Yorkers learned in 1688 that their colony (as well as New Jersey) had been annexed, by royal fiat, to the Dominion of New England (a megacolony created by James II two years before). Imagine the anxiety in August 1688 when Edmund Andros returned to New York as archgovernor of the dominion, thereby supplanting Dongan, who had been recalled.",
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