stadtholderate
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]stadtholder + -ate
Noun
[edit]stadtholderate (plural stadtholderates)
- (historical) The office or position of a stadtholder.
- Synonym: stadtholdership
- 2005 [1938], C. V. Wedgwood, The Thirty Years War, NYRB, page 194:
- On his deathbed he sent for his younger half-brother, Frederic Henry, the prince who would undoubtedly succeed him in the stadholderate of five provinces and the command of the army.
- (historical) A state ruled by a stadtholder.