Definition of "gouernour" [gouernour]

• Obsolete spelling of governor. (noun)

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• "When I sawe this within eight or tennes dayes after being recouered of my woundes, I went to the citie, which I sayde to bee greater then this where I am, and found there some fewe of them, to whom I sayde that they should not be afrayd, and that they should call their gouernour vnto mee: Howbeit forasmuch as I can learne or gather, none of them hath any gouernour: for I sawe not there any chiefe house, whereby any preeminence of one ouer another might bee gathered."
• "Moreouer towards the South, standeth the citie of Trapesunda,6 which hath a gouernour proper to it selfe, named Guydo being of the Image of the Emperours of"
• "Moal, who were a poore and beggerly nation, without gouernour, and without Lawe, except their soothsayings, and their diuinations, vnto the which detestable studies, all in those partes doe apply their mindes."