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Definition of Stadtholder
1. n. Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.
Definition of Stadtholder
1. Noun. The chief magistrate, then later, hereditary chief-of-state of the Dutch Republic (mod. Dutch stadhouder). ¹
2. Noun. An office formerly held by Danish and Swedish officials best translated as Governor-general. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stadtholder
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stadtholder
Literary usage of Stadtholder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1802)
"On that occasion, count Bentinck, who introduced the new stadtholder, addressed
the states-general in the following words:—" I doubt not but the prince I ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1788)
"General charges tga'mft the stadtholder ... the stadtholder ti the government of
the Hague. ... the stadtholder from all the ..."
3. Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of by John Heneage Jesse (1846)
"His son, Prince Maurice, succeeds to the office of stadtholder, and is successful
against the ... Character of William the Second, fourth stadtholder. ..."
4. A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe by David Jayne Hill (1914)
"The inhabitants demanded of the Council that he be proclaimed stadtholder; and
the authorities, intimidated by their fury, were forced to yield. ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"William IV was thus the first stadtholder of all the seven provinces. ...
The authority of the stadtholder was not the same in all the prov- ..."
6. Mazarin by Arthur Hassall (1903)
"THE continuance of internal trouble in France, and the death in November 1650 of
William II., stadtholder of the United Provinces, upset all Mazarin's ..."
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