Definition of "serjeant" []

• Chiefly British Variant of sergeant. (noun)

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• "But the head nurseship of a hospital serjeant is the more essential, the more important, the more inexperienced the nurses."
• "For the serjeant was a rising man, and Lady Demolines was not exactly progressing in the world."
• "This artifice, to which he is impelled by towering ambition, the serjeant seems disposed to connive at -- and the serjeant is a hero, and a great man in his way; "your hero always must be tall, you know.""