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in authority
P1. in authority: in a position of power or control; having, or so as to have, power over a person.
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in authoritya1475
at the top1936
up top1967
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 145 Men that were in grete auctorite and offices.
1551 R. Robinson in tr. T. More Vtopia Epist. sig. ✠v Nowe placed in aucthorytye, and called to honoure.
1572 Treat. Treasons against Q. Elizabeth i. f. 75v Some in Authority..do sometimes procure and suborne false accusations to be forged & testified.
1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xxix. 2 When the righteous are in authoritie, the people rejoyce. View more context for this quotation
1680 F. Moore in H. Townshend Hist. Coll. Last Four Parl. 328 No poor Man ought to be in Authority..[because] he will..Bribe you, and Extort you.
1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers Pref. Even Christ, speaking to Persons in Authority, called them by the Name of Friend.
1757 M. Postlethwayt Great Britain's True Syst. p. liii But we rarely find, that the severest Raillery, or most poinant Satyr..have any other Tendency, than to make Men in Authority the more obstinate and pertinacious in their Misconduct.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xlv. 438 Those who are put in authority over me (as the catechism goes).
1878 J. P. Hopps Life Jesus x. 36 The people in authority..would try to stop him.
1918 G. M. Battey 70,000 Miles in Submarine Destroyer (1919) 302 Any body in authority is ‘the man’.
1964 Life 24 July 45/1 Had someone in authority in Washington lost his nerve?
2001 R. Holloway Doubts & Love i. 4 Those in authority not only organised things to suit themselves, they interpreted things to suit themselves.
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