| 单词 | emperor maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasemperor maker emperor maker n. rare before 19th cent. a person who brings an emperor to power through the exercise of political influence; cf. kingmaker n. ΚΠ 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 18 Prouide that the raskallest sort be no Emperour-makers [L. interest ne imperatorem pessimi faciant]. 1805 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. Dec. 428 Infallible Pius [VII] protests he was happy A forced visit to make to invincible Nappy, But, it seems, this infallible Emperor-maker Had contriv'd to forget our achievement at Acre. 1897 J. B. Perkins France under Louis XV I. vi. 224 For a while he [sc. the Duc de Belle-Isle] had been before the eyes of all Europe; he had filled the great rôle of an emperor maker. 2007 China Econ. Rev. (Nexis) July The Dowager Empress—emperor maker and dynastic scourge—loomed as a tall shadow behind everything that happened to China. < as lemmas |
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