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- noun Plural form of
appanage .
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Examples
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The London Hungarian Committee in 1849 quoted Article X, by Leopold II, of the House of Hapsburg, in 1790, which definitely stated that "Hungary with her appanages is a free kingdom, and in regard to her whole legal form of government (including all the tribunals) independent; that is, entangled with no other kingdom or people, but having her own peculiar consistence and constitution; accordingly to be governed by her legitimately crowned king after her peculiar laws and customs."
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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Therefore, he argued and agreed, must worlds and life be appanages to all the suns as they were appanages to the particular of his own solar system.
THE RED ONE 2010
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Therefore, he argued and agreed, must worlds and life be appanages to all the suns as they were appanages to the particular of his own solar system.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Road To Science Fiction 2 - James Gunn Blue Tyson 2008
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These last threats, uttered more obscurely than the others, obviously concerned the person of the King, and at one time the Duke expressed his determination to send for the Duke of Normandy, the brother of the King, and with whom Louis was on the worst terms, in order to compel the captive monarch to surrender either the Crown itself, or some of its most valuable rights and appanages.
Quentin Durward 2008
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Therefore, he argued and agreed, must worlds and life be appanages to all the suns as they were appanages to the particular of his own solar system.
Archive 2008-05-01 Blue Tyson 2008
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But if he were acquitted, then would her claim to be called Lady Lovel, and to enjoy the appanages of her rank, be substantiated.
Lady Anna 2004
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But she was awed by his appearance and by the increased appanages of his sick-bed.
The American Senator 2004
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Sidonia, in spite of the whispered dislike of an illustrious personage, opened the campaign with all the full appanages of a giant of the highest standing.
Framley Parsonage 2004
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He himself was accustomed to do his work, out in the Islands, with many of the appanages of vice-royalty around him.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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It had suited his taste to keep these things in abeyance, and to place his pride in the oaks and elms of his park rather than in any of those appanages of grandeur which a man may carry about with him.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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