Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A peer whose peerage lapses at his death, not being hereditary. See
lord of appeal in ordinary , under lord.
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Examples
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A life-peer is but a mortal amid the angelic throng.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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A life-peer is but a mortal amid the angelic throng.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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