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scepters

scepters is the plural of scepter.

Meaning of scepter

Noun

scepter (plural scepters)

  1. American and archaic form of sceptre.
    • Edwards great linage by the mothers ſide,
      Fiue hundred yeeres hath helde the ſcepter vp,1596, [attributed to William Shakespeare; Thomas Kyd], The Raigne of King Edward the Third: […], London: […] [T. Scarlet] for Cuthbert Burby, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]

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Phrases with scepters

Questions about scepters

What is scepters the plural of?
Scepters is the plural of scepter.

Words near scepters in the dictionary

  1. scepterdom
  2. sceptered
  3. scepterellate
  4. sceptering
  5. scepterless
  6. scepters
  7. sceptic
  8. sceptical
  9. scepticality
  10. sceptically
  11. scepticalness

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