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- When I asked her about this, she confided that she was from Georgia but was educated in a very fine private school where the cruder forms of black dialects were frowned upon by the Presbyterian educators who presided over the school.†
p. 21.6presided = chaired; or headed; or was in charge
- Not one of them knew my name, but all of them had prior knowledge that a white teacher would preside over them for the year.†
p. 25.5 *preside = be in charge; or head; or chair
- Piedmont learned that he had not sent me to Yamacraw to preside over an intellectual wasteland with all due acknowledgments to T. S. Eliot.†
p. 39.9
- A church built from cypress stands beside the river, a structure of elegant simplicity and fine lines built by slaves, and presided over by the omnipresent town pillar, the deacon of deacons, Ezra Bennington.†
p. 79.4presided = chaired; or headed; or was in charge
- First of all, if I was expected to come to Yamacraw Island to preside over the intellectual decimation of forty kids, you selected the wrong boy.†
p. 191.4preside = be in charge; or head; or chair
- Zeke had informed me that Bennington would preside at the meeting instead of Piedmont.†
p. 200.1
- Magnolia trees towered and presided over the ceremony.†
p. 233.5presided = chaired; or headed; or was in charge
- You have been presiding over an educational desert.†
p. 265.6presiding = in charge (with highest authority); or heads; or chairs
- Piedmont and Bennington, in turn, presided over student-council elections at the white schools, sat in a place of honor at football games, chaperoned school dances, and kissed the comely blonde elected homecoming queen.†
p. 290.1presided = chaired; or headed; or was in charge
Definitions:
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(1)
(preside) to lead or be in charge of a meeting, event, or group -- especially in an official or formal role
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)