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Definition of Overlordships
1. overlordship [n] - See also: overlordship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlordships
Literary usage of Overlordships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order by Edward Alsworth. Ross (1901)
"The overlordships of Franks, Burgundians, Normans, Goths, Varangians, have left
deep scars on the European peoples.1 Nearly everywhere, at some time or ..."
2. A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe by David Jayne Hill (1914)
"... by any of the cities or overlordships that had come under his dominion, "by
whatever name they might be called." The first indication of this procedure ..."
3. The Development of the British Empire by Howard Robinson (1922)
"By the end of the seventh century the Anglo-Saxons had conquered most of England.
Out of the chaos of small kingdoms there grew overlordships, ..."
4. Papers of the American Historical Association by American Historical Association (1889)
"Their external overlordships were distinctly acknowledged, but, say the Articles
of Confederation, " We have also, in general assembly and with unanimous ..."
5. The Middle Ages, 395-1272 by Dana Carleton Munro (1921)
"But he and his successors used their position as kings to make their feudal
overlordships more effective; and at the same time their suzerainty, ..."
6. Forty Years of Diplomacy by Roman Romanovich Rosen (1922)
"The beginning of the nineteenth century saw the establishment of the practical
overlordships of France, under Napoleon, over the whole of Continental Europe ..."
7. A History of Gothic Art in England by Edward Schröder Prior (1900)
"Yet, accepting this position, bowing to the overlordships, and rendering the
service due, all the time it is by its very function a revolutionist, ..."
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