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lese majeste

lese majeste is the alternative spelling of lèse-majesté.

Meaning of lèse-majesté

Noun

lèse-majesté

  1. The crime of violating majesty, an offense against the dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state.
    • Convictions for the crime of Lèse-Majesté are of almost daily occurrence and, at the opening of the war, an amnesty was granted in many of these cases, the ministry of war withdrawing many prosecutions against poor devils waiting their trial in jail because they had dared to speak disrespectfully...1917, James W. Gerard, My Four Years in Germany

Questions about lese majeste

What is lese majeste the alternative spelling of?
Lese majeste is the alternative spelling of lèse-majesté.

Words near lese majeste in the dictionary

  1. Lescroarts
  2. lesdar
  3. lesdars
  4. lesdom
  5. lese
  6. lese majeste
  7. lese majesty
  8. lese-majestie
  9. lese-majesty
  10. Leseb
  11. lesene

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lese majeste (page history and authors); lèse-majesté (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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