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Definition of Stadtholders
1. stadtholder [n] - See also: stadtholder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stadtholders
Literary usage of Stadtholders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"May Heaven preserve us from kings, princes, and stadtholders. The people are the
best guardians of their own liberties and interests. ..."
2. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"The third William in the line of stadtholders is in this respect chiefly to be
reckoned among hereditary kings that from the very marriage of his parents ..."
3. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"The third William in the line of stadtholders is in this respect chiefly to be
reckoned among hereditary kings that from the very marriage of his parents ..."
4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year (1852)
"... of the stadtholders. HANOVER—Death of the King—Proclamation by his Successor
George V. SPAIN.—Resignation of the Narvaez Ministry—New Cabinet formed by ..."
5. John De Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland: Or, Twenty Years of a by Germain Antonin Lefèvre-Pontalis (1885)
"... Princes of Orange —Their powers as stadtholders—William I. the founder of
independence—Maurice of Orange—Political and religious differences—Conflict of ..."
6. A Manual of the History of the Political System of Europe and Its Colonies by Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren (1846)
"... in the government of this republic, soon after the commencement of this period,
by the introduction of hereditary stadtholders over all the provinces. ..."
7. A Manual of the History of the Political System of Europe and Its Colonies by Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren (1857)
"... in the government of this republic, soon after the commencement of this period,
by the introduction of hereditary stadtholders over all the provinces. ..."
8. Critical and Historical Essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1903)
"First Magistrates, Doges, stadtholders; he was emphatically a yc The years of
the widowhood and mourning of the Tory party were King, the anointed of heaven ..."
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