WordMageThe Learned and the Powerful
Judges, scholars, politicians, and other dignitaries assemble beneath names of varying degrees of dignity.
- a clamber of assistant professorsSource: Lipton 1977
- a tenure of associate professorsSource: Lipton 1977
- A thong of baronsSource: Book of St. Albans
- a portfolio of brokersSource: Lipton 1977
- a slate of candidatesSource: Lipton 1977
- a dignity of canonsSource: Lipton 1977
- a curse of creditorsSource: Lipton 1977
- a recession of economistsSource: Lipton 1977
- a discord of expertsSource: Lipton 1977
- a plenitude of freshmenSource: Lipton 1977
- an entrenchment of full professorsSource: Lipton 1977
- a fortitude of graduate studentsSource: Lipton 1977
- A sentence of judgesSource: Book of St. Albans; Lipton 1977
- a gratitude of juniorsSource: Lipton 1977
- A damning of jurorsSource: Book of St. Albans
- A rout of knightsSource: Book of St. Albans
- a route of knightsSource: Lipton 1977
- an eloquence of lawyersSource: Lipton 1977
- a drift of lecturersSource: Lipton 1977
- an example of mastersSource: Lipton 1977
- a faith of merchantsSource: Lipton 1977
- a mess of officersSource: Lipton 1977
- an execution of officersSource: Lipton 1977
- a slumber of old guardSource: Lipton 1977
- A state of princesSource: Book of St. Albans; Lipton 1977
- an ex cathedra of professors emeritiSource: Lipton 1977
- a brood of researchersSource: Lipton 1977
- a pan of reviewersSource: Lipton 1977
- an attitude of seniorsSource: Lipton 1977
- A subtlety of sergeantsSource: Book of St. Albans; Lipton 1977
- a boast of soldiersSource: Lipton 1977; Book of St. Albans
- a platitude of sophomoresSource: Lipton 1977
- a disagreement of statesmenSource: Lipton 1977
- a failing of studentsSource: Lipton 1977
- a bored of trusteesSource: Lipton 1977
- A fellowship of yeomenSource: Book of St. Albans
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