| 单词 | grand remonstrance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGrand Remonstrance Grand Remonstrance n. a lengthy petition presented by the House of Commons to Charles I in 1641, indicting his reign and containing drastic proposals for reform of the Church and State. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > a complaint > formal or public > specific Grand Remonstrance1648 1641 (title) A remonstrance of the state of the kingdom.] 1648 Rebellion Strip't & Whipt 18 Having also declared in that grand Remonstrance to the Kingdome, that their intent was to restore the ancient honour, greatnesse and security of the Crowne. 1649 Certaine Observ. Tryall J. Lilburne 9 The main and principall end of all the Warres they pretended, was for the Peoples Liberties and Freedoms, amongst all which they reckon Tryalls by Juries one of the chiefest, as clearly in their first grand Remonstrance, &c. appeareth. 1784 M. Noble Mem. Protectorate-house Cromwell I. App. P. 345 Would he have solemnly assured lord Faulkland, in 1641, that had not the grand remonstrance passed, ‘he would have sold all he had the next morning, and never have seen England more’. 1831 T. B. Macaulay in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 536 That celebrated address to the king..known by the name of the Grand Remonstrance. 1983 C. M. Hibbard Charles I & Popish Plot i. 14 When they ‘went public’..by printing pamphlets—the printing of the Grand Remonstrance is the starkest example here—they could..be charged with inflaming the minds of the people against the king. < as lemmas |
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