stadholderaten.
1. The office or dignity of stadholder.
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1788 Ann. Reg. 1786 Hist. Europe 67/1 The stadtholderate became extinct by the death of William the Third of England.
1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 75 He would take no part in the quarrel, unless an entire abolition of the Stadtholderate should be attempted.
1880 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People IV. ix. iii. 300 The restoration of the Dutch Statholderate.
2. A state ruled by a stadholder, or by a chief with the status and powers of a stadholder.
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1889 Academy 20 July 32/1 Making the revolted colonies into a stadtholderate under the Count of Broglie.
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