| 单词 | letter of safeguard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasletter of safeguard letter of safeguard n. now historical a document guaranteeing safe conduct; cf. sense 1a. ΚΠ 1703 Hist. & Polit. Mercury Nov. 434 The little City of Newstadt, having refus'd to receive a Letter of Safeguard from him, he forc'd the Lines, took the Town by Storm, [etc.]. 1821 H. Wilson Wonderful Characters II. 453 Catherine..obtained of him a letter of safeguard that her subjects might have nothing to fear from the Spanish army on its march through her territories. 1984 A. Goldhammer tr. in R. E. Mousnier Inst. France under Absolute Monarchy II. iii. xv. 241 Letters of safeguard (by which the king placed a person or his property under royal protection), safe-conducts, passports, [etc.]. 2003 D. C. Margolf Relig. & Royal Justice Early Mod. France iii. 82 Le Cornu claimed that the letters of safeguard..that Sainte Melaine had presented to the court were forgeries. < as lemmas |
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