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Lords Temporal   /lɔrdz tˈɛmpərəl/   Listen
Lords Temporal

noun
1.
The nobility in France and the peerage in Britain.  Synonym: second estate.






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... Richelieus, and the Ximenes's of the days in which cardinals and archbishops were permitted to take a leading part in executive politics, and the very respectable figure still presented by the lords spiritual, beside the lords temporal of the British House of Peers. As for 'the common week-day opinion that praying people are not practical,' those by whom it is entertained, of course, mentally except ...
— Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics - With Some of Their Applications • William Thomas Thornton



Words linked to "Lords Temporal" :   UK, French Republic, United Kingdom, estate of the realm, France, Britain, U.K., second estate, estate, the three estates, Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland



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