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Definition of Peerages
1. peerage [n] - See also: peerage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peerages
Literary usage of Peerages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third by Thomas Erskine May (1899)
"As an expedient for adding to the judicial strength of the House, without a
permanent increase of its Life-peerages numbers, it was suggested that the most ..."
2. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third by Thomas Erskine May (1899)
"The practice of granting peerages for life was not a constitutional novelty, but
had long fallen into desuetude. Between the reigns of Richard II. and Henry ..."
3. The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the by Thomas Erskine May (1891)
"The practice of granting peerages for life was not a constitutional novelty, but
had long fallen into desuetude. Between the reigns of Richard IL and Henry ..."
4. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"They said that Coke had often declared that the crown could create peerages "for
life, in tail or in fee," and that doctrine had ..."
5. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis (1898)
"... provided that no new creation of any such peers shall take place after the
union until three of the peerages of Ireland which shall have been existing ..."
6. The Baronage and the Senate: Or, The House of Lords in the Past, the Present by William Charteris Macpherson (1893)
"The whole five peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and Great
Britain and Ireland, ought to be amalgamated in one Imperial Peerage of the ..."
7. The Speeches of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan: To which is Added His Letter by Henry Grattan (1822)
"I say, I have good reason to believe that peerages have been sold Jvr money ...
CURRAN MOVES FOR A COMMITTEE TO ENQUIRE INTO THE SALE OF peerages, ..."
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