Lexicographical Neighbors of Pentarchs
Literary usage of Pentarchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the English Invasion by Geoffrey Keating (1866)
"... and the pentarchs of Ireland to dethrone Mogh Corb, hoping thereby to succeed
in procuring the, banishment of the tribe of ..."
2. Ridpath's History of the World: Being an Account of the Principal Events in by John Clark Ridpath (1910)
"... and in time of emergency all the pentarchs, sometimes numbering a hundred or
more, were called together to delib- 'This word is the same as the Hebrew ..."
3. The History of Ireland by Thomas Moore (1837)
"... which had been exercised originally only by the monarch, of subsidising and
demanding tribute from the other pentarchs and provincial princes. ..."
4. The History of Modern Europe: From the Fall of Constantinople, in 1453, to by Thomas Henry Dyer (1864)
"The overbearing insolence, the insatiable rapacity, of the French Pentarchs were
insufferable. These, men, who pretended to spread liberty abroad, ..."
5. Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland:: From the by Thomas Campbell (1789)
"For there " were pentarchs of each province, aliens from the " blood royal of
the monarch ; yet not one of ..."
6. Ridpath's Universal History: An Account of the Origin, Primitive Condition by John Clark Ridpath (1897)
"... of emergency all the pentarchs, sometimes numbering a hundred or more, were
called together to delib- 1This word is the same as the Hebrew for "Judges. ..."
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