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Definition of electress in English: electressnoun ɪˈlɛktrəsɪˈlɛktrɪs historical usually as title The wife of a German elector. Example sentencesExamples - This secured the crown for Princess Sophia, the electress of Hanover, who was James I's granddaughter.
- The Hanoverians, who were summoned in 1714 as the nearest Protestant heirs, were related to the Stuarts and previous British dynasties through Sophia, electress of Hanover, mother of George I and granddaughter of James VI and I.
- Leibniz wrote to the electress to suggest that the plans for the observatory be widened to embrace an Academy of Sciences.
- Friedrich August's consort was the Archduchess Maria Josefa, elder daughter of Emperor Josef I, sister of the Bavarian electress Maria Amalia and first cousin of the Empress Maria Theresia.
Definition of electress in US English: electressnounɪˈlɛktrɪsiˈlektris historical usually as title The wife of a German elector. Example sentencesExamples - This secured the crown for Princess Sophia, the electress of Hanover, who was James I's granddaughter.
- Leibniz wrote to the electress to suggest that the plans for the observatory be widened to embrace an Academy of Sciences.
- The Hanoverians, who were summoned in 1714 as the nearest Protestant heirs, were related to the Stuarts and previous British dynasties through Sophia, electress of Hanover, mother of George I and granddaughter of James VI and I.
- Friedrich August's consort was the Archduchess Maria Josefa, elder daughter of Emperor Josef I, sister of the Bavarian electress Maria Amalia and first cousin of the Empress Maria Theresia.
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