¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Legations
1. legation [n] - See also: legation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legations
Literary usage of Legations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The legations. See, Such was the situation when the return of Napoleon made it
necessary for Austria to hold fast to the duchies, ..."
2. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1901)
"Four days after its despatch a telegram arrived stating that on August 14 the
Chinese capital had been reached and the legations relieved. ..."
3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"Legation as an institution for the purpose legations. ... Yet permanent legations
were unknown till very late in the Middle Ages. ..."
4. Europe Since 1815 by Charles Downer Hazen (1910)
"Rescue of the legations. China to open a dozen new ports to the trade of the world
... Finally, the legations of the various powers in Peking were besieged, ..."
5. International Law and the World War by James Wilford Garner (1920)
"Care of Belligerent Interests by Neutral Embassies and legations. Following the
practice in recent wars, the various belligerent governments upon the ..."
6. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"CHAPTER XXIX A general alarm—A signal answered—Desperate efforts to make the
legations capitulate—Heroic fighting—Chinese troops pouring in confusion out of ..."
Other Resources:
