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- noun Plural form of
palatinate .
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Examples
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In 1945 Governor Millard Caldwell instructed the sheriffs of the state, who often ran counties like their own personal palatinates, to eradicate the deadly sin of sloth in the State of Florida.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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You have the face of someone who stands to inherit two palatinates and an isle somewhere I never heard of, and the manners of a shoemaker, and when you say you're not afraid to die, you think you mean it, and under that you believe you don't.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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Warmia, and the palatinates of Marienberg and Culm, with the complete command of the lower part of the Vistula; and to Austria the country along the left bank of the Vistula, from Vielicza down to the confluence of the river Viroz, the whole of the country called Red Russia, the palatinate of Belz, and a portion of the province of Volhynia.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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[256] Now, the kingdom of Prussia, the duchies of Samogitia and Courland, the palatinates of Livonia and Esthonia, in the name of which last the ancient appellation of these people is preserved.
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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While this was under consideration, the proprietors, apparently fully confident of the success of their plan, wished the persons immediately concerned to know about it and on July 28, they "ordered, that the advertisement printed in the gazette for the palatinates 'transportation, be printed in High Dutch, for the use of the poor palatines and the rest of the Germans."
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Brauneberger as one may not hear elsewhere in the palatinates.
Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920
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He was, as far as is known, the first person actually to propose a federation or union of all those English-speaking political divisions, royal provinces, dominions, palatinates, or what not, that had been hewed away from the vast original Virginia.
Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903
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Without this step the new shires would only have been palatinates of the Glamorgan or Pembroke type, and the creation of such franchises was directly contrary to Edward's policy.
The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892
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The titles of the states seem to be entirely arbitrary, and, according to the fancy of their rulers, they were called kingdoms, principalities, electorates, palatinates, margraviates, Grand Duchies, or Duchies.
Down the Rhine Young America in Germany Oliver Optic 1859
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"The absolute lords of those palatinates," says Sir John Davis, "made barons and knights, exercised high justice within all their territories; erected courts for civil and criminal causes, and for their own revenues, in the same form in which the king's courts were established at Dublin; they constituted their own judges, seneschals, sheriffs, coroners, and escheators."
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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