Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In jurisprudence, any crime committed against the sovereign power in a state; treason.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
leze majesty .
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- noun An
offense against thesovereign power in a state;treason . - noun An act of
disrespect towardsauthority .
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- noun a crime that undermines the offender's government
Etymologies
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Examples
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Column editor's note: lese-majesty is, indeed, Guardian style...
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The advertisements for the tat are set to do wonders for the coffers of our newspapers, some of which are already offering a "special coin for William and Kate"ed's note: surely this amounts to lese-majesty?
Is the royal wedding a cause for celebration? Rachel Johnson 2010
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• A panel seeking to explain Thailand's lese-majesty laws – What makes an insult?
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We may imagine the valorous anger of our little metropolis at this act or crime of lese-majesty.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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Agassiz were correct and all his conclusions sound, that any doubts or criticisms upon the part of my acute and unprejudiced friend shocked me as a reprehensible compound of heresy and lese-majesty.
Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction Lane Cooper
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Rousseau had not lived, Voltaire was unborn, and the most daring approach to lese-majesty had been Rabelais 'jocose: "The wearers of the crown and scepter are born under the same constellation as those of cap and bells."
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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Erastian high-commission court, patched up of statesmen and clergymen: and hereby was the church again brought under the yoke of anti-christian prelacy, and tyrannical supremacy; which lese-majesty to Zion's King was also ratified with the sanction of civil authority.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
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"Pardon me, your Grace," she said in a tone of quiet deference; "hath the learned body of the Queen's Council no knowledge of the crime of lese-majesty?"
The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull
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Ch'ien, in pleading for Li Ling, was actually criticizing the Emperor; such criticism was lese-majesty, for which Szu-ma Ch'ien was punished severely.
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So sure was I that all the statements of Agassiz were correct and all his conclusions sound, that any doubts or criticisms upon the part of my acute and unprejudiced friend shocked me as a reprehensible compound of heresy and lese-majesty.
Louis Agassiz as a Teacher Cooper, Lane, 1875-1959 1917
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