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Guelphs

Guelphs is the plural of Guelph.

Meaning of Guelph

Noun

Guelph (plural Guelphs)

  1. (historical) In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Pope in a long struggle against the Ghibellines and the Holy Roman Emperor.
    • The parties of Guelph and Ghibelline raged as fiercely as if the lances of the German hosts were ever glimmering on the crest of the Alps, or as if the Lombard leagues were in constant watchfulness against an impending foe. […] Speaking generally, the Ghibellines were the party of the emperor, and...1893, Oscar Browning, Guelphs and Ghibellines: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1250-1409, Methuen & Co., page 13
  2. (historical) Any member of the German-Hanoverian Party (1867–1933), a conservative federalist political party in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic founded in protest of the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by the Kingdom of Prussia.
    • Bismarck was aware of the opportunity which the Reichstag afforded the Guelphs.1973, Stewart A. Stehlin, Bismarck and the Guelph Problem 1866-1890, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, page 111

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Questions about Guelphs

What is Guelphs the plural of?
Guelphs is the plural of Guelph.

Words near Guelphs in the dictionary

  1. Guelma
  2. Guelmim-Oued Noun
  3. Guelph
  4. Guelphic
  5. Guelphism
  6. Guelphs
  7. Guels
  8. guelta
  9. gueltas
  10. Guelwongo
  11. guemal

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