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Definition of Heptarchies
1. heptarchy [n] - See also: heptarchy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heptarchies
Literary usage of Heptarchies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee Or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (1904)
"Their career, with all its vicissitudes, from the union of the heptarchies under
Egbert, down to the final settlement of the government on the expulsion of ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1904)
"autonomy which made of Hellas a heptarchy of heptarchies. Meanwhile a steady
process was going on which determined finally the character of literary Greek. ..."
3. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Savage fighting heptarchies : their fighting is an ascertainment, who has the
right to rule over whom ; that out of such waste-bickering ..."
4. The Social Life of the Hebrews by Edward Day (1901)
"To one thoroughly conversant with the social life in England from the days of
the Saxon heptarchies down to the time of Bang John, many fascinating ..."
5. John Brown by William Elsey Connelley (1900)
"•Savage fighting heptarchies: their fighting is an ascertainment, who has the
right to rule over whom; that out of such waste-bickering ..."
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