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Ghibelline, n. and a.|ˈgɪbəlɪn, -aɪn|
Also 6 Gibiline, 7–8 Gibel(l)ine, 7 Ghibelin, 9 Ghi-, Guibeline.
[ad. It. Ghibellino, commonly stated to be a corruption of Ger. Waiblingen, the name of an estate belonging to the Hohenstaufen family; the Ger. name is said to have been used as a war-cry by the partisans of the Hohenstaufen emperor Conrad III at the battle of Weinsberg 1140.]
A. n. One of the emperor's faction in the Italian states, as opposed to the Pope's faction: see Guelph.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 112 Nether hard-hearted Gibiline nor desperate Guelphe Made ever profession of so wicked pelfe. 1602Metam. Tabacco (Collier) 49 The inhumane designes of furious Guelphes and warlike Gibellines. 1639Drummond of Hawthornden Prophecy Wks. (1711) 181 Thence arose the Guelfs and Gibellines, imperialists against papists. 1663Dryden Wild Gallant i. i, Thy doublet and breeches are Guelphs and Ghibelins to one another. 1705Addison Italy (1766) 88 Their republic was torn into the divisions of Guelphs and Gibelines. 1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 302/2 The Bianchi in their reverses joined the Guibelines. 1872Lowell Dante Pr. Wks. 1890 IV. 129 The nobles..were commonly Ghibellines, or Imperialists.
B. adj. Of or adhering to the Ghibellines.
1826K. Digby Broadst. Hon. (1829) I. i. 270 The Ghibelline party aimed at nothing but the establishment of merely worldly dominion. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 34 The weakness of Henry III would not suffer him to commit himself heartily to a Ghibelline policy. |