| 单词 | great deliverer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGreat Deliverer Great Deliverer n. (among his supporters) King William III (reigned 1689–1702), who deposed the Catholic King James II in 1688 at the invitation of a group of English statesmen. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > king > [noun] > king of England > specific Great Deliverer1695 yea-and-nay1900 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > titles applied to royalty > for a king or ruler > for King William the Third Great Deliverer1695 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur v. 150 The great Deliverer The pious William; yonder he's in Sight, In whom Nassovian Blood, and ours unite. 1747 W. Murray Thistle 27 How were the Dutch and the great Deliverer used after England had been rescued? 1826 Monthly Repos. Jan. 29/1 On the decease of the great Deliverer, the muse takes fire at his hallowed name. 1886 C. M. Yonge Chantry House I. x. 92 There was a dissenting chapel, old enough to be overgrown with ivy.., erected by the Nonconformists in the reign of the Great Deliverer. 1938 M. Bowen World's Wonder 59 In the opinion of this school of writers..the ‘Great and Glorious’ Revolution was a sordid affair and the Great Deliverer a paltry adventurer. 2000 S. Farrell Rituals & Riots 195 It [sc. an explicit reference to massacres in 1641] was replaced with references to the great deliverer, William the Third, Prince of Orange, a much more respectable subject. < as lemmas |
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