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Definition of Charles II

1. Noun. As Charles II he was Holy Roman Emperor and as Charles I he was king of France (823-877).

2. Noun. King of England and Scotland and Ireland during the Restoration (1630-1685).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Charles II

Charles Farrar Browne Charles Follen McKim Charles Fourier Charles Francis Hall Charles Francois Gounod Charles Franklin Kettering Charles Franklin Peirce Charles Frederick Menninger Charles Frederick Worth Charles Goodyear

Charles Grey Charles Hardin Holley Charles Henry Harrod Charles Herbert Best Charles I Charles II (current term) Charles IX Charles James Fox Charles Joseph Clark Charles Kay Ogden

Charles Kettering Charles L'Enfant Charles Lamb Charles Laughton Charles Lindbergh Charles Liston Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Charles Louis de Secondat Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Literary usage of Charles II

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1866)
"... which forms one of the principal features in the reign of Charles II." I have now laid before the reader what I conceive to be the point of view from ..."

2. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"Declaration of Indulgence by Charles II. 1676. Accession of Innocent XI. ... Death of Charles II. Accession of James II. Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, ..."

3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1858)
"The Royal Pilgrimage, or the Progresse and Travels of K.Charles II.through the most and greatest Courts of Europe. Loud. 1660, 4to. ..."

4. Belgium and Holland, Including the Grandduchy of Luxembourg: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1901)
"In the Vestibule are several full-length portraits of former sovereigns, among whom are Maria Theresa, Francis II., Joseph II., Charles VI., Charles II. of ..."

5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"The new King was Charles II, the only son of Philip IV. At the time of his father's ... This saying admirably characterises the entire epoch of Charles II. ..."

6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"The new King was Charles II, the only son of Philip IV. At the time of his father's ... This saying admirably characterises the entire epoch of Charles II. ..."

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