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Definition of Heptarchy
1. n. A government by seven persons; also, a country under seven rulers.
Definition of Heptarchy
1. Noun. government by seven people ¹
2. Noun. A state governed by seven people, or an association of seven states (as in Anglo-Saxon Britain) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heptarchy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Heptarchy
Literary usage of Heptarchy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of England by Nicolas Tindal (1757)
"I hope by this means to give a compleat idea, if not of all the affairs of the
heptarchy, at leaft of what is moft material. Of the heptarchy in general. ..."
2. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution by David Hume (1858)
"The Mercians, before the accession of Egbert, had very nearly attained the absolute
sovereignty in the heptarchy: they had reduced the East Angles under ..."
3. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1848)
"The most powerful subjects have not a natural right to the service of other freemen.
But in the laws enacted during the heptarchy, we find it hinted that ..."
4. Sketches of Universal History: Sacred and Profane, from the Creation of the by Frederick Butler (1818)
"THE Saxon heptarchy was the basis on which the laws ef England, and of course,
English, ... This heptarchy continued until they were united under Egbert, ..."
5. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"Norman The old notion of an heptarchy, of a regular system of The old seven
kingdoms, united under the regular supremacy of aa regular single over-lord, ..."
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