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ˈprince-eˈlector
[= Ger. Kurfürst.]
One of the princes who elected the Holy Roman (German) Emperor; = elector 3. Hence ˈprince-eˈlectorship, the office or dignity of a prince-elector.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. Pref., To the most excellent Prince Augustus, Prince Electour, Duke of Saxon [etc.]. 1606G. W[oodcocke] Lives Emperors in Hist. Ivstine L l v, Ferdinandus brother of Charles, was consecrate Emper. in the towne of Francfort, by the Princes electors. 1624Aphorisms of State in Harl. Misc. (1810) V. 511 Maximilian, the Duke of Bavaria, for the establishing the state of his prince-electorship, hath sought unto the authority of the apostolical seat. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. M.'s Wks. (1847) 352/2 The emperour of Germany never was summoned to appear before one of the prince electors. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. I. 57 When the prince-electors proceeded to the vote, they swore that ‘according to the best of their understanding, they would choose the temporal head of all Christian people, i.e. a Roman king and future emperor’. |