Definition of Guy fawkes

1. Noun. English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606).

Exact synonyms: Fawkes
Generic synonyms: Coconspirator, Conspirator, Machinator, Plotter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guy Fawkes

Gutenbergian
Guthrie
Guthrie test
Gutierrezia
Gutierrezia microcephala
Gutierrezia sarothrae
Gutierrezia texana
Gutnish
Guttiferae
Guttiferales
Gutzeit's test
Guugu Yimidhirr
Guwahati
Guy
Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes Day
Guy Fawkes Night
Guy Fawkes night
Guyana
Guyana dollar
Guyanas
Guyanese
Guyon's amputation
Guyon's isthmus
Guyon's sign
Guys
Gwangju
Gwatkin

Literary usage of Guy fawkes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. What Gunpowder Plot Wasby Samuel Rawson Gardiner by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1897)
"Reply to J. Gerard's "What was the gunpowder plot?" The traditional story tested by original evidence," London, 1896."

2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER AND Guy FAWKES. (VoL xviii., p. 450.) My attention has been drawn to your editorial note above referred to, asking for an account of ..."

3. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"... while at work, they heard a rumbling noise over their heads. Fear seized them that they had been discovered. guy fawkes, going out to in- guy fawkes. ..."

4. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"guy fawkes at Ramsgate.—The notes in the March number of FOLK-LORE on " guy fawkes on the South Coast", bring back to my memory that some fifty years ago it ..."

5. Publications by Parker Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"Such evidence might throw valuable light on the connection between guy fawkes' and Hallowmas bonfires, long surmised by collectors of English folklore, ..."

6. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"He it was who procured the co-adjutor- ship of the celebrated Guido or guy fawkes, who was not, as lias sometimes been represented, a low mercenary ruffian, ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... such as Mr. guy fawkes. Winter soon discovered what Catesby had probably foreseen in England, that there was no hope at all of any immediate relief from ..."

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