Read full poem →proposed) tended to deprive them of their right of voting, which was
a birth-right so sacrosanct and radically inherent in the peerage,
as not to be temerated on any account whatsoever." When the earl had
Dictionary Entry
Peers as a group; the nobility, aristocracy.
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Common Phrases
. peeragebill peeragecase peeragepeerage irishpeerage completepeerage englishpeerage britishpeerage hereditary
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Poetry examples for “peerage”
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