Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman holding the title to a landgraviate.
- n. The wife or widow of a landgrave.
- n. Used as the title for such a noblewoman.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The wife of a landgrave; a lady of the rank of a landgrave.
Wiktionary
- n. The wife of a landgrave.
- n. A woman who exercises the office, or holds the rank, of langrave in her own right.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The wife of a landgrave.
Etymologies
- From Middle Low German landgravin, feminine of landgrave, landgrave; see landgrave. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The duke conducted the king into his room, where he found the old landgravine and the three physicians of the queen.”
“At the gate stood the old grandmother who had charge of Louisa in her childhood, the old landgravine, now eighty years of age.”
“The venerable old landgravine went to him and laid her hand gently on his shoulder.”
“Josephine; Julius, Julia _or_ Juliet; landgrave, landgravine; Louis, Louisa”
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
“Philip lived with both wives, both of whom bore him children, the landgravine, two sons and a daughter, and Margaret six sons.”
“Benedictine nunnery of Kitzingen near Würzburg, took charge of the unfortunate landgravine and sent her to her uncle Eckbert, Bishop of”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“In 1225, after the recall of the Franciscan Rodeger, Conrad became the spiritual director and confessor of the pious landgravine.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“And the sole remaining one, who looked in that extraordinary moment from that balcony, filled with youth and beauty, and tenderly-beating hearts, is our Princess Elizabeth, the most senior of them all, who, after becoming the landgravine of Hesse Homberg, has herself returned a widow to her country, which is indeed happy to receive back the honored mourner.”
“However, I have taken James's powder for four nights, and have found great benefit from it; and if Miss Conway does not come back with soixante et douze quartiers, and the hauteur of a landgravine, I think I shall still be able to run down the precipices at Park-place with her-This is to be understood, supposing that we have any summer.”
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