Definition of "masters" []

• Plural form of master. (noun)
• A master's degree. (noun)

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• "The masters are in part "believing masters," so that a precept to them, how they are to behave as _masters_, recognizes that the relation may still exist, _salva fide et salva ecclesia_, ( "without violating the Christian faith or the church.")"
• "” On the other hand, the masters and the masters’ sons have never been able to see why the Negro, instead of settling down to be day-laborers for bread and clothes, are infected with a silly desire to rise in the world, and why they are sulky, dissatisfied, and careless, where their fathers were happy and dumb and faithful."
• "Their very manner of speaking to what we call their masters and mistresses will be a like monstrous masquerade."