attourneie
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
attourneie (plural attourneies)
- Obsolete form of attorney.
- 2015 July 17, David Marsh, “Two Whoppers Junior, please. With hashes brown on the side”, in The Guardian[1]:
- The OED also lists an older meaning: someone who had the power of attorney was an attorney general, as opposed to an attorney special or attorney particular, and here the plural was attorneys general, as used by Shakespeare in Richard II: “Call in his letters patents that he hath By his attourneies generall to sue His livery.”