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Definition of Bailiwicks
1. bailiwick [n] - See also: bailiwick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bailiwicks
Literary usage of Bailiwicks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Nor did this incident stand alone : the delicate constitutional «Question of the
Free bailiwicks added to the intensity of feeling. all the villages in the ..."
2. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"We will call upon the cities to respect our alliances,'' said they, •' and if
they refuse, we will enter the common bailiwicks by force to procure ..."
3. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the by P. L. Jacob (1876)
"The bailiwicks.—Struggles between Parliament and the Chatelet.—Codification of
the Customs and Usages.—Official Cupidity.—Comparison between the Parliament ..."
4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1802)
"... of the petty Italian states and Swiss bailiwicks are to history. ART.
XIII.—Observations on some Medals and ..."
5. History of Switzerland by John Wilson (1832)
"If in the establishment of these common, or, so called, free bailiwicks, the
confederates swerved from the more enlarged policy of their fathers (who had ..."
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