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Compeer vs Coadjutor - What's the difference?

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Compeer is a related term of coadjutor.


As nouns the difference between compeer and coadjutor

is that compeer is (obsolete) the equal or peer of someone else; someone who is a close companion or associate of someone else while coadjutor is an assistant or helper.

As a verb compeer

is to be equal with; to match.

compeer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) the equal or peer of someone else; someone who is a close companion or associate of someone else
  • * Milton
    • And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be equal with; to match.
  • * Shakespeare
    • In my rights, / By me invested, he compeers the best.

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    coadjutor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An assistant or helper.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, pp. 206-7:
    • The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor ’s white, startled face.
  • (ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop.
  • * 1842 John Henry Newman - The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'abbé Fleury:
    • When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem
  • * 2005 James Martin Estes - Peace, Order and the Glory of God:
    • August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.