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Definition of Notables
1. notable [n] - See also: notable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Notables
Literary usage of Notables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"needed, or rather it was needed at once. Even apart from their attachment to
privilege, the notables might well be surprised and angered by ..."
2. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1915)
"ASSEMBLIES OF notables § 356. The Assemblies of the notables,1 not very numerous,
and arbitrarily chosen,2 were consequently supple enough to allow the ..."
3. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"THE notables. HERE, then, is verily a sign and wonder ; visible to the whole world;
... this Assembly of the notables, and the Revolution that is preparing. ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"CHAPTER, ILL THE notables. HEBE, then, is verily a sign and wonder; ... invites some
dedicating Poet or Poetaster to sing "this Assembly of the notables, ..."
5. France Under Mazarin: With a Review of the Administration of Richelieu by James Breck Perkins (1886)
"Even that went no further than the calling of an assembly of notables. Twelve nobles,
as many of the higher clergy, and twenty-nine representatives of the ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1866)
"They had come, he said, in the name of the imperial regency to announce that tha
vote of the notables which had conferred the crown on him had ..."
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