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Definition of Confederacies
1. confederacy [n] - See also: confederacy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confederacies
Literary usage of Confederacies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1904)
"In short, the governments of all important confederacies, ancient and modern,
were scrutinized in search for historical guidance. ..."
2. American Orators and Oratory: Comprising Biographical Sketches of the by C. M. Whitman (1883)
"If the States be united under one government, there will be bul one national
civil list to support; if they are divided into several confederacies, ..."
3. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"Confederacies among the heroes, ... but in these Theban wars we find a union of
seven 'chiefs ; and such confederacies appear to have become frequent in the ..."
4. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"Confederacies among the heroes, the Tin-ban wars, and the Caly- ... and such
confederacies appear to have become frequent in the latter part of the heroic ..."
5. A History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria by Benjamin Stites Terry (1908)
"CHAPTER III THE RIVAL Confederacies OF TEUTONIC BRITAIN, AND THE FOUNDING OF THE
NATIONAL CHURCH The next stage in the history of Teutonic Britain is one of ..."
6. The Works of Alexander Hamilton by Alexander Hamilton (1904)
"I shall content myself with barely observing here, that of all the confederacies
of antiquity, which history has handed down to us, the Lycian and Achaean ..."
7. The Political History of Poland by Edward Henry Lewinski Corwin (1917)
"The Confederacies were unions formed by the nobility, or magnates, the Diet or
the King, with the - , , . aim of achieving certain things which ..."
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