Stadtholder is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STADTHOLDER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Dutch) a Dutch viceroy or provincial governor, also STADHOLDER
• (from the 15th century to the late 18th century) the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
• Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a viceroy in a province of the Netherlands
• same as stadholder

Words related to STADTHOLDER

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How to use STADTHOLDER in a sentence

• The Prince of Orange, stadtholder of Holland, Zealand, and Utrecht, and the count of Egmont, governor of Flanders and Artois, permitted no persecutions in those five provinces.
• The death of this prince left the state without a stadtholder, and the army without a chief.
• As stadtholder of Holland, he merits unqualified praise.
• He left his cousin, Prince Frison of Nassau, the stadtholder of Friesland, his sole and universal heir, and appointed the states-general his executors.
• The stadtholder saw clearly the storm which was gathering, and which menaced his power.
• The stadtholder and the English ambassador loudly complained of this outrage.
• In order to excuse measures dictated by this necessity, each stadtholder was perpetually obliged to form partisans, and he thus became the hereditary head of a faction.
• The executive magistrate of the union is the stadtholder, who is now an hereditary prince.
• As stadtholder of the union, he has, however, considerable prerogatives.
• Becoming embroiled with Holland, where the republican party had prevailed against the stadtholder, who was devoted to them, the English had waged war upon the Dutch colonies.
• The Convention declares war against the King of England, and Stadtholder of Holland.
• Dumourier addresses a proclamation to the Dutch against the Stadtholder.
• Proclamation of the Stadtholder on the dangers which threaten Holland.
• The states of Holland openly abandon the interests of the Stadtholder.
• The Prince of Orange, son of the Stadtholder, did me the honour to dine with me, for which he was reproached by Bonaparte.
• They were the declared enemies of the Stadtholder, and acted in concert with the Democrats, forming with them what was called the Patriots.
• A schism took place between them and the Democrats, and the former have for some time been dropping off from the latter into the scale of the Stadtholder.
• Between the young king and his Flemish Stadtholder was never any warmth of feeling.
• In this he had declared his cousin prince Frison of Nassau, stadtholder of Friesland, his sole and universal heir, and appointed the states-general his executors.
• The opposite faction dreaded alike the power of a stadtholder, the neighbourhood of a French army, and the seditious disposition of the populace.
• The people in several towns, inflamed by such representations to tumult and sedition, compelled their magistrates to declare the prince of Orange stadtholder.
• The dissensions which had long subsisted between the stadtholder and the states had arisen to an alarming height, and demanded the interposition of foreign powers.
• The result was, that the stadtholder was not only reinstated in his former privileges, but gratified with new, and that the ancient forms of government were re-established.
• In the summer of 1584 the prince and princess took up their residence at Delft, where Frederick Henry, afterwards the celebrated stadtholder, was born to them.
• Prince Frederic Henry succeeded his brother as Stadtholder.

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