2. Noun. (plural of rehoboam) ¹
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Definition of Rehoboams
1. rehoboam [n] - See also: rehoboam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rehoboams
Literary usage of Rehoboams
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century by Leopold von Ranke (1875)
"... who were become haughty Rehoboams. The only means of resistance to them lay
in the union of all loyal men in order to work with all their might for the ..."
2. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century by Leopold von Ranke (1875)
"... who were become haughty Rehoboams. The only means of resistance to them lay
in the union of all loyal men in order to'work with all their might for the ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1895)
"We of modern times, when so many new movements are in vogue, are somewhat like
belated Rehoboams who scorned his old advisers, and summoned the young to his ..."
4. The Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament: A Series of Sermons Preached in by Frederick Denison Maurice (1853)
"... they encountered Rehoboams in the State, and proud men in the Church, who
said, " Let us change rods into scorpions" ; compromises failed, ..."
5. The Letters of Horace Walpole: Fourth Earl of Orford by Horace Walpole (1904)
"And though, to be sure, grey hairs are fittest to conduct state affairs, yet as
the Rehoboams of the world (Louis XVI excepted) do not always trust the ..."
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