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Today's Word "gubernatorial"

Of or pertaining to a governor on

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gubernatorial \GOO-ber-nuh-TOR-ee-uhl\ (adjective) - Of or pertaining to a governor.

"In 1780 John Hancock was elected the first governor of Massachusetts under its new constitution and thereafter was easily reelected whenever he chose to run. His gubernatorial career was marked by his inability to prevent a fiscal and currency crisis in the mid-1780s." -- John Hancock, 'The Reader's Companion to American History'

 

Gubernatorial is from Latin gubernator, "governor," from gubernare, "to govern," which is also the source of govern.


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