coarb

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Irish comharba.

Noun

coarb (plural coarbs)

  1. (historical) The successor to the founder of a religious institution.
    • 1920, H. J. Lawlor, St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh‎[1]:
      These abbots were sometimes bishops; but whether they were bishops or of lower rank in the ministry, their authority was inherent in their office of coarb.
  2. (historical) The head of one of the families composing an old Irish sept.

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