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King's Counsel   /kɪŋz kˈaʊnsəl/   Listen
King's Counsel

noun
1.
Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a king.





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"King's Counsel" Quotes from Famous Books



... that if we English would go among the savage tribes of Africa, and tame some of their elephants, they would be so convinced of our superiority, that they would, without hesitation, submit to our dominion. This came from a learned king's counsel, and was seriously uttered to one of his Majesty's government, without exciting surprise in any but my experienced self. In our human impatience we are apt to think the progress we so much desire, comes slowly; but could such an idea ...
— Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals • R. Lee
... that in the manner of the man-at-arms that nettled Walter Skinner, so that he became more pompous than before and, resolved to show the soldier how high he stood in the king's counsel, he said haughtily: "Why, it were best he balk me, if he knew what will come to his young master when I find him. King John, as thou knowest, hath a special hatred toward ...
— A Boy's Ride • Gulielma Zollinger


Words linked to "King's Counsel" :   Counsel to the Crown


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