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Definition of Kingdoms

1. kingdom [n] - See also: kingdom

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kingdoms

Literary usage of Kingdoms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 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, ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1902)
"CHAPTER X HUNGARY AND THE SLAVONIC kingdoms IN the generation preceding the rise of the Reformation, the Magyar and Bohemian kingdoms underwent an internal ..."

3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1872)
"That on the first of May, 1707, and for ever after, the kingdoms of England and Scotland shall be united into one kingdom, by the name of Great Britain. 2. ..."

4. Select Documents of English Constitutional History by Eugene Morrow Violette, Great Britain, Henry Morse Stephens (1901)
"... and for the attaining of the ends expressed in the covenant and treaty : And whereas both kingdoms have thought it necessary that they should be joined ..."

5. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution by David Hume (1858)
"... the kingdoms of the Heptarchy, an exact rule of succession was either unknown or not strictly observed; and thence the reigning prince was continually ..."

6. Ancient Times, a History of the Early World: An Introduction to the Study of by James Henry Breasted (1916)
"Thus the Hebrew nation was divided into two kingdoms before it was a ... THE Two HEBREW kingdoms 299. The There was much hard feeling between the two Hebrew ..."

7. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"THE STATE CHURCH m THE GERMANIC kingdoms So long as the Germanic rulers remained Arian, the Catholic Church in their kingdoms was left for the most part ..."

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