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Definition of Owen Glendower
1. Noun. Welsh chieftain who led a revolt against Henry IV's rule in Wales (1359-1416).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Owen Glendower
Literary usage of Owen Glendower
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"There is Cymric mention of a translation of Petrarch's poems, the work of Owen
Glendower, which still further presses on our attention the fact that he was ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"Why bother the head with unravelling the title of Owen Glendower to a yard and
a-half of his neighbor's ground ? Fi- PARIS, December 24. ..."
3. A History of England and the British Empire by Arthur Donald Innes (1913)
"On his way south the king found that Owen Glendower, a Welsh gentleman of large
estate, who through his mother claimed descent from Llewelyn, ..."
4. The Comic History of England by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, John Leech (1864)
"Assisted by his clerk the trusty Thomson, Mr. Owen Glendower armed himself for
the contest upon which he had determined to enter; and the learned gentleman, ..."
5. Wales by Owen Morgan Edwards (1901)
"XVI Owen Glendower THK economic discontent, the hesitation of the Mortimers, the
divisions in ... Owen Glendower was a scion of the old princes of Powys, ..."
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