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depositary [dɪˈpɒzɪtərɪ -trɪ] n pl -taries
1. a person or group to whom something is entrusted for safety or preservation 2. (Business / Commerce) a variant spelling of depository [1] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any government, would be an unsafe and improper depositary of the NATIONAL INTERESTS. It is not a great deal larger than Germany, where a diet representing the whole empire is continually assembled; or than Poland before the late dismemberment, where another national diet was the depositary of the supreme power. He was so entirely ignorant of the existence of the million at Newcastle, that but for a gentleman -- one of your majesty's subjects -- the moral depositary of the million, who revealed the secret to King Charles II. |
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