| 单词 | glorious revolution |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGlorious Revolution Glorious Revolution n. the ‘Revolution’ of 1688 in England (see revolution n. 9a). ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > specific revolutions > in England in 1688 revolution1689 Glorious Revolution1716 1716 T. Bradbury Sermon preach'd November 5 4 The first amazing Kindness that's inscribed upon the Fifth of November..is the Discovery of the Powder-Plot... But you know he hath put a new Song into our mouths, by making it again a time of Love: as it usher'd in the Glorious Revolution. 1827 Hallam Const. Hist. II. xiv. 429 What has been emphatically denominated in the language of our public acts the Glorious Revolution. 1920 P. Guedalla Supers & Supermen 103 In the Great Rebellion the King left by the front door; in the Glorious Revolution he emerged from the tradesmen's entrance. 1986 Library Mar. 40 In Europe the peculiar constitutional arrangements deriving from the Glorious Revolution became a matter of intense interest to political philosophers. < as lemmas |
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