| 单词 | hereditary peerage |
| 释义 | > as lemmashereditary peerage hereditary peerage n. a peerage held by inheritance, esp. one entitling the holder to a seat in the House of Lords (contrasted with life peerage n.); (also) the body of hereditary peers considered collectively.With French History use cf. peer n. 4b(c). ΚΠ 1683 R. L'Estrange Observator 21 Nov. An Honourable and Hereditary Peerage. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 463 The difference between a personal and hereditary Peerage made that they [sc. bishops] could not be the judges of the temporal Lords. 1830 W. Wordsworth Let. Aug. (1979) V. 317 I cannot conceive how an hereditary monarchy can exist, without an hereditary Peerage..if the Law of the Napoleon Code compelling equal division of property by will, be not repealed. 1892 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. xxii. 436 Since the successive unions of England and Scotland and of Great Britain and Ireland, an hereditary peerage has not always in practice carried with it a seat in the House of Lords. 1919 E. Bourgeois Hist. Mod. France 1815–1913 I. iv. 146 He had recourse to the abolition of the hereditary peerage and to the principles of Liberalism. 1997 R. Brazier Ministers of Crown xvii. 316 (note) Only three hereditary peerages have been conferred since 1964. < as lemmas |
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