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Definition of Peeresses
1. peeress [n] - See also: peeress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peeresses
Literary usage of Peeresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Constitutional History of the House of Lords by Luke Owen Pike (1894)
"Peeresses for life: these do not affect the constitution of the House of Lords.
... There are several other instances of the creation of Peeresses for life ..."
2. Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485) by James Henry Ramsay (1892)
"Trials of Peeresses. Statute. Foundation of Eton. The war. HENRY VI. ... To what
tribunal were peeresses charged with treason or felony amenable ? ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"S. Among subjects men alone can convey derivative rank, except in the ease of
the daughters and sisters of the sovereign, or of peeresses in their own right ..."
4. Who's who by Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1897)
"Peeresses IN THEIR OWN RIGHT (10) THE TITLE, RANK, FAMILY NAME, DATE OP CREATION,
HEIR OP EACH PEERESS, AND AGE OF SUCH HEIR In this List C. stands for ..."
5. The Law of Population: A Treatise, in Six Books; in Disproof of the by Michael Thomas Sadler (1830)
"EXHIBITING THE AGES OF 471 Peeresses AT THEIR MARRIAGE, AND THE NUMBER AND SEX
OF THEIR CHILDREN. It is perfectly clear, therefore, as far as these ..."
6. Political Dictionary: Forming a Work of Universal Reference, Both by Charles Knight (1846)
"Women may also be peeresses of the realm in their own right, as by creation, ...
The wives of peers are peeresses. On the remote origin of this order, ..."
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