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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • See Kulturkampf, above.
  • In Russia, severe oppressive laws against Jews, which have given occasion for great persecution; -- so called because they received the assent of the czar in May, 1882, and because likened to the Prussian May laws (see Kulturkampf).

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