Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A legislative assembly of representatives from the estates of the nation, as opposed to a provincial assembly.
- noun plural The legislative assembly in France before the Revolution.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Well, that would be the High and Mighty Lords of the States-General of the United Netherlands.
Chris Rodda: No, Mr. Beck, That Wasn't 'Some Professor' -- That Was Me 2010
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Although it held a charter from the States-General that authorized monopoly trade and the exercise of sovereign rights — raising an army, negotiating treaties, and administering justice — the Company's primary interests lay with its shareholders, not with the complicated politics of the Republic of the United Netherlands. 25
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Well, that would be the High and Mighty Lords of the States-General of the United Netherlands.
Chris Rodda: No, Mr. Beck, Jefferson Did Not Date His Documents 'In the Year of Our Lord Christ' 2010
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Well, that would be the High and Mighty Lords of the States-General of the United Netherlands.
Chris Rodda: No, Mr. Beck, That Wasn't 'Some Professor' -- That Was Me 2010
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Well, that would be the High and Mighty Lords of the States-General of the United Netherlands.
Chris Rodda: No, Mr. Beck, Jefferson Did Not Date His Documents 'In the Year of Our Lord Christ' 2010
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In 1789 at the opening of the States-General, the Freemasons boast, the great French Masonic family was in full vigour...
Archive 2007-08-19 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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In 1789 at the opening of the States-General, the Freemasons boast, the great French Masonic family was in full vigour...
Short essay on the French Revolution de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Here the violence of the surf, as well as the unfriendly attitude of the natives, prevented his obtaining water, and he finally quitted these shores, giving them the name Staten-land or the Land of the States, in honor of the States-General.
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(States-General) — evoked in him a whole series of ideas he had long laid aside but which were deeply graven in his soul: thoughts of the Contrat social and the French Revolution.
War and Peace 2003
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It is not without significance that Antony van Leeuwenhoek's profession was that of a sheriff's bailiff in the States-General of
OPTICS AND VISION VASCO RONCHI 1968
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