| 单词 | unmerciful parliament |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunmerciful Parliament unmerciful Parliament n. [after post-classical Latin parliamentum sine misericordia (a1500 in Knighton)] historical (now rare) the English parliament of 1388, summoned by the Lords Appellants, which condemned to death several courtiers loyal to Richard II; cf. merciless Parliament n. at merciless adj. 1a, marvellous Parliament n. at marvellous adj., adv., and n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1700 R. Brady Contin. Compl. Hist. Eng. 391 On the next day this Parlement ended, being Thursday the 4th of June, which, says Knighton, was called the Unmerciful Parlement. 1733 T. Salmon Mod. Hist. XVIII. 33 They repeal'd all the Acts that had been made by that factious unmerciful Parliament in the 11th Year of the King. 1909 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 13 Mar. 16/2 The ‘unmerciful parliament’ of the reign of Richard II was not the only unmerciful assembly of the sort that has been held. We are still having some of them. < as lemmas |
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