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Definition of Gustavus
1. Noun. The last king of Sweden to have any real political power (1882-1973).
2. Noun. King of Sweden who kept Sweden neutral during both World War I and II (1858-1950).
3. Noun. King of Sweden whose losses to Napoleon I led to his being deposed in 1809 (1778-1837).
4. Noun. King of Sweden who increased the royal power and waged an unpopular war against Russia (1746-1792).
5. Noun. King of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632).
6. Noun. King of Sweden who established Lutheranism as the state religion (1496-1560).
Definition of Gustavus
1. Proper noun. (given name male from=Germanic), a Latinized form of Gustav. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gustavus
Literary usage of Gustavus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"gustavus KEAN is my cousin ; but that is not the reason I am writing about him.
... The one blight upon gustavus Kean's young life was the shadow cast by ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"Rarely has a King been in such evil case as gustavus III when, at the end of
August, 1788, he reappeared at Stockholm. The army was in open mutiny. ..."
3. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"The Reformation prevailed, however, through the political revolution which raised
gustavus Vasa to the throne. Christian II. of Denmark was supported in his ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"gustavus, still too weak to meet the foe, entrenched himself at Werben, ...
The question now was: In what way should gustavus utilize his advantage? ..."
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