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- noun Plural form of
Briton .
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Examples
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To call them Britons is a sort of "bloodless genocide" because it denies indigenous people their own identity.
The Archmoron speaks 2009
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ToppleTester is the most widely used topple-testing device in Europe, and has saved countless Britons from the embarrassment of being squished.
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Erasmian ill-articulation of Greek, it has become English, and has lent its little aid in dividing the Britons from the rest of the civilised world.
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These newscasts were usually preceded by a recording of Rule Britannia and while joining in mentally with the remembered words I reached the phrase Britons never, never, never, shall be slaves; I recalled the definition of a slave as being one who received little or no remuneration for his services and who could never voluntarily escape his predicament.
Coming of Age: 1939-1946 John Cox
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Because of all these things they are sometimes called the Britons of the Far East.
Highroads of Geography Anonymous
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One of the most appalling crimes that Herr Hitler has committed, in the eyes of Britons, is that you can't believe his word.
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Then Oswy restored all the wealth, which was with him in the city, to Penda; who distributed it among the kings of the Britons, that is, Atbert Judeu.
Cadafael, King of Gwynedd Carla 2009
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Then Oswy restored all the wealth, which was with him in the city, to Penda; who distributed it among the kings of the Britons, that is, Atbert Judeu.
Archive 2009-04-01 Carla 2009
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I fear that the type of postcolonial studies taught at many universities focusses a great deal on the British Empire, where the Britons are the baddies, robbing the indigenous population of raw materials, and the local people the goodies, seeking liberation.
Archive 2009-07-01 David McDuff 2009
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In a still more apocryphal spirit the word Britons was averred by some of the older chroniclers to be derived from a leader, Brito -- "Britones Bruto dicti," to use the expression of Nennius (§ 18); Scots from Scota "Scoti ex
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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