Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The office, powers, or territory of a palatine.
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- noun A
territory ruled by apalatine - noun A native or inhabitant of such a territory
- adjective Of or pertaining to a palatinate or the
Palatinate
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Examples
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It has become a Saudi palatinate, a confederated province of Saudi Arabia, a pocket-size weasel state from which all journalists should in future use the dateline: Manama, Occupied Bahrain.
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It has become a Saudi palatinate, a confederated province of Saudi Arabia, a pocket-size weasel state from which all journalists should in future use the dateline: Manama, Occupied Bahrain.
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Just because I was out dancing around on the Brighton Pier doesn't mean that kate_schaeffer, huboffline, and palatinate will go unscathed or unspanked into another year!
No Behind Left Behind-- kate_schaeffer 2010
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Just because I was out dancing around on the Brighton Pier doesn't mean that kate_schaeffer, huboffline, and palatinate will go unscathed or unspanked into another year!
No Behind Left Behind-- kate_schaeffer 2010
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And today, palatinate, you are on the business end of the Sparkly Paddle of Birthday Wonderfulness!
The Best Way To End The Week and Start The Weekend-- palatinate 2009
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Disney World is close to being an extraconstitutional entity, a business palatinate within a soi-disant democracy.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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Outside the city, though, in the new settlements, Protestants were becoming the majority The Brouard lands lay in Nassau, a region in the top right-hand corner of Florida named by the British for the ancestral palatinate of the anti-Papist William III.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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Chatted with palatinate on star glamour whom I hadn't seen all weekend --it's hard to bump into people here: Pyr has wisely monopolised the Hilton bar, lounge lizards that we are and Tim and Serena Powers on the big balcony on the merry joys of Disneyland.
up from the deep palatinate 2006
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Charles Augustus Christian, duke of the palatinate of Zweibrücken
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Frederick II convinced Charles Augustus Christian, duke ofthe palatinate of Zweibrücken, to contest Austrian claims.
1770, Sept. 24 2001
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