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noun

Fiduciary n.

One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee. "Instrumental to the conveying God's blessing upon those whose fiduciaries they are."

(Theol.) One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fiduciary" Quotes from Famous Books

... Canada never forgets and never forgives. Instances could be multiplied of brilliant politicians retired to private life, of moneyed men who spent fortunes to buy a knighthood, a baronetcy, an earldom—and died disappointed because in early life they had used fiduciary funds or trafficked in politics. It may impart a seeming snobbery to Canadian life, an almost crude insolence; but it keeps a title from becoming the insignia of an envied dollar bill. It keeps men from buying what their conduct failed to win. It does more than anything else to keep ...

— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut

... because the parties belonged to different groups, it has developed a high degree of mutual confidence between merchant and customer, banker and client, insurer and insured. By its system of contracts and fiduciary relations, which bind men of the most varying localities, races, occupations, social classes, and national allegiance, it has woven a new net of human relations far more intricate and wide-reaching than the natural ties of blood kinship. It rests upon ...

— The Ethics of Coperation • James Hayden Tufts

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