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Definition of Legates
1. legate [v] - See also: legate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legates
Literary usage of Legates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"But now the legates were proceeding in England: TH* u. of the steps in which they
went, though a great deal be E^U^.'° already published, yet considerable ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"On that day the Queen appeared in person before the legates, and objected ...
This objection being considered, on the 21st the legates pronounced themselves ..."
3. The Dictionary of English History by Frederick Sanders Pulling (1884)
"legates, PAPAL, were the messengers or ambassadors of the Pope, ... The surrender
of John gave opportunities for extraordinary foreign legates, ..."
4. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"Henry therefore, imagining himself sure of his two legates, desired them to
proceed with the matter of the divorce without delay. There was no time to lose, ..."
5. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"The legates come oftener and oftener; even in Henry's reign a simple ... In the
Councils which the legates hold we find the practice of appealing to a ..."
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