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Definition of Interregnums
1. interregnum [n] - See also: interregnum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interregnums
Literary usage of Interregnums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"We prefer in both cases to suppose a longer reign of the earlier of the two kings
between whom the interregnums are conjectured. With the exception of these ..."
2. Chips from a German Workshop by Friedrich Max Müller, Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1889)
"The list begins, like the Sanskrit tradition, with the firs* generation ; three
interregnums presuppose four periods. '2. The whole fourfold divided ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography edited by William Smith (1898)
"Two interregnums have however l>een supposed, one of 11 yrs. between Jeroboam II.
and Zachariah, and the other, of 9 yrs. between Pekah and ..."
4. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"Thus the interregnums which were so terrible and so disastrous in ancient history,
are accidents entirely foreign to the history of modern times. ..."
5. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1888)
"Two interregnums have however been supposed, one of 11 yrs. between .Jeroboam II.
and Zachariah, and the other, of U yrs. between Pekah and Hoshea '[Tie ..."
6. The Congressional Globe by United States Congress, Francis Preston Blair, John Cook Rives, George A. Bailey, Franklin Rives (1853)
"... but also rince the arrival in New Mexico of the successor of Governor Calhoun.
The contest has been kept up in interregnums and not in interregnums, ..."
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