单词 | lord protector |
释义 | > as lemmasLord Protector (of the Commonwealth) b. Usually with capital initial. In full Lord Protector (of the Commonwealth). The title borne in 1653–8 by Oliver Cromwell, and in 1658–9 by his son Richard, as the head of the executive council of state. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > head of government > [noun] > protector during Commonwealth of 1653-9 Lord Protector (of the Commonwealth)1653 1653 in Acts & Ordin. Parl. (1658) 275 From and after the six and twentieth day of December 1653 the Name, Style, Title and Teste of the Lord Protector..of the Commonwealth, of England, Scotland, and Ireland..shall be used. 1654 Weekly Intelligencer 14–21 Mar. 179 The Privy Lodgings for his Highness the Lord Protector in Whitehall are now in readiness, as also the Lodgings for his Lady Protectoress. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1658 (1955) III. 224 Saw the superb Funerall of the Protectors. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiv. 379 The Declaration of the Council of Officers was read, whereby Cromwell was made Protector. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. lxi. 322 Cromwell was declared protector; and with great solemnity installed in that high office. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. x. 100 Cromwell's assumption, therefore, of the title of Protector was a necessary and wholesome usurpation. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 135 The kingly prerogatives were intrusted to a lord high protector..called not His Majesty but His Highness. 1904 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2) II. 11 Sir Ralph was suddenly arrested,..by the Lord Protector's soldiers, as a suspected Royalist. 1962 E. Bruton Dict. Clocks & Watches (1963) 125 Oliver Cromwell's Watch. A plain Puritan watch on a fob chain which belonged to the Protector. 2003 A. Lacey Cult of King Charles the Martyr v. 165 The Countess [of Devonshire], although on good terms with the Lord Protector, considered herself a Royalist. < as lemmas |
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