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  1. n. A political conglomeration of lands in Central Europe from at least 962 CE until 1806.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a political entity in Europe that began with the papal coronation of Otto I as the first emperor in 962 and lasted until 1806 when it was dissolved by Napoleon

Examples

  • “From his earliest manhood he had followed the drum, first under the veteran Dutch commanders in their long war against Catholic Spain and then under the greatest captain of the age, the veritable 'Lion of the North', King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, in his homeric struggle against the Imperial tyranny of the Holy Roman Empire on behalf of German Protestantism. '”

    War Game

  • “Historical and political writer, etc. The Holy Roman Empire (1862), Transcaucasia and”

    A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

  • “And looking at history, we see Catholic France and Spain attaining the zenith of their national grandeur, whilst Germany was undermining and disintegrating that Holy Roman Empire vested in the German nation — an empire which was its glory, its strength, the source and mainstay of its culture and prosperity.”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

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  1. First Reich

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  1. political entity
  1. political unit

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. Lite-FM
  2. Germany
  3. Eastern Church
  4. h. r.
  5. Saxony
  6. Reich
  7. calceamentum
  8. Linz
  9. Netherlands
  10. Sr.
  1. margrave
  2. diademed
  3. elector
  4. electorate
  5. HRE
  6. Thirty Years' War
  7. Thuringia
  8. Vaduz
  9. Trier
  10. Robert Guiscard
  1. Palatinate
  2. Hohenstaufen
  3. Holstein
  4. Hanover
  5. Liechtenstein
  6. Lothair I
  7. Leopold I
  8. Kaiser
  9. diet
  10. thirty years' war
  1. war of the grand alliance
  2. war of the league of augsburg
  3. count palatine
  4. prince eugene of savoy
  5. republic of austria
  6. richard coeur de lion
  7. Richard I
  8. richard the lion-hearted
  9. Richard the Lionheart
  10. Switzerland
  1. Pomerania
  2. territory
  3. Eugene
  4. Habsburg
  5. Hapsburg
  6. lutzen
  7. oesterreich
  8. Austria
  9. battle of lutzen
  10. Brandenburg
  1. holy roman emperor
  2. capitulation
  3. adlerglas

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