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1589 I. L. (title) The Birth, Purpose, and mortal Wound of the Romish holie League.

1684 J. Dryden (title) The history of the League. Written in French by M. Maimbourg. Translated into English.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Leaguer, one concern'd in the League or Confederacy in France, in the time of King Henry III and IV.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The League is used by way of Eminence for that famous one on foot in France, from the Year 1576, to 1593.

1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. iv. 267 The King of England was declared Protector of this league, which they dignified with the name of Holy, because the Pope was at the head of it.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) I. 375 The Amphictyonic league or council.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) III. 39 The Delphians..were..induced..to renounce their union with the Phocian league.

1861 T. H. Dyer Mod. Europe II. 194 An alliance against the Sultan, called the Holy League, was..concluded between himself [Pius V], Philip II., and the Venetians.

1861 T. H. Dyer Mod. Europe II. 450 The Catholic States of the Circles of Suabia and Bavaria agreed to enter into an alliance which afterwards obtained the name of the Holy League.

1917 H. N. Brailsford League of Nations 324 Without the firm resolve to make the League itself an article, and the first article, in the settlement, our need of security will drive us inevitably to other expedients. The settlement, unless the idea of the League penetrates it and inspires it, must draw its principle from the older statecraft of anarchy and force.

1919 J. M. O'Sullivan in Studies Dec. 577 Had not the basal idea of the League been thus early repudiated.

1936 A. Huxley Let. 2 Mar. (1969) 401 The..atmosphere wd be cleared and a chance given for the reconstruction of the League on a more satisfactory basis.

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. iii. 32 The failure of the League merely served to underline the urgent need for some international political organization.

1950 W. Theimer & P. Campbell Encycl. World Politics 260/1 The Assembly did not meet again until April 1946, when it decided to dissolve the League, already replaced by the United Nations.

1952 Oxf. Junior Encycl. X. 212/2 When the United States Congress repudiated President Wilson's proposals and failed to join the League, its hope of real success was small.

1971 W. H. McNeill in A. Bullock 20th Cent. 47/1 Should a government defy the League..all the League members would be obliged to..check aggression by imposing sanctions.