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Ghibellines

Ghibellines is the plural of Ghibelline.

Meaning of Ghibelline

Noun

Ghibelline (plural Ghibellines)

  1. (historical) In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Holy Roman Emperor in a long struggle against the Guelphs and the Pope.
    • These two factions came to be called Guelphs and Ghibellines respectively. The Guelphs were the supporters of the Popes, the Ghibellines of the Emperors. The Guelphs upheld the temporal supremacy of the Pope: the Ghibellines would separate temporal from spiritual authority. The Guelphs resisted the...1878, Arthur Elam Haigh, The Political Theories of Dante: The Stanhope Prize Essay, 1878, Thos. Shrimpton & Co., page 6

Questions about Ghibellines

What is Ghibellines the plural of?
Ghibellines is the plural of Ghibelline.

Words near Ghibellines in the dictionary

  1. ghi
  2. Ghia
  3. Ghibeline
  4. Ghibelines
  5. Ghibelline
  6. Ghibellines
  7. Ghibellinism
  8. ghibli
  9. Ghibli-esque
  10. Ghibliesque
  11. Ghiblification

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