Both Uses of
archbishop
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- He clung to one idea—that of his happiness, destroyed, without apparent cause, by an unheard-of fatality; he considered and reconsidered this idea, devoured it (so to speak), as the implacable Ugolino devours the skull of Archbishop Roger in the Inferno of Dante.†
Chpt 15-16 *
- Occasionally, but seldom, he played at whist, and then care was taken to select partners worthy of him—sometimes they were ambassadors, sometimes archbishops, or sometimes a prince, or a president, or some dowager duchess.†
Chpt 47-48
Definition:
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(archbishop) a bishop of highest rank (in charge of other bishops and churches)