Emperors

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Definitions and meanings of "Emperors"

What do we mean by emperors?

The male monarch or ruler of an empire.

Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean when consort to emperor

(political theory) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.

The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.

A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.

Any fish of the family Lethrinidae.

Any various butterflies of the subfamily Charaxinae.

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The word "emperors" in example sentences

The designs of the Roman government were repeatedly baffled by his artful delays, ambiguous promises, and apparent concessions; and the interposition of his formidable confederate, the king of the Huns, recalled the emperors from the conquest of Africa to the care of their domestic safety. ❋ Unknown (1206)

But time and again emperors, from the Ming to the Maoist, have been able to establish tyrannical centralized rule and shut down trade, diversity and experiment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thy power, I fancy, or that of thy predecessors, who in name alone are called emperors of the Romans and are it not in reality, was sleeping at that time. ❋ Robert Brentano (1964)

After having criticised to her heart's content her neighbours, including under that title emperors and grand-dukes, and having abundantly multiplied the et ceteras, Princess Gulof suddenly turned the conversation to physiology: this science, whose depths she believed herself to have fathomed, was, in her estimation, the secret of everything, the Alpha and Omega of human life. ❋ Victor Cherbuliez (1864)

Some considerations of religion, or loyalty, or fear, protected the sacred persons of the emperors from the zeal or resentment of the bishops; but they boldly censured and excommunicated the subordinate tyrants, who were not invested with the majesty of the purple. ❋ Unknown (1206)

A series of bloody and undecisive combats is nothing more than an anticipation of what would have been effected in a few years by the course of nature; but I shall briefly prosecute the conquests of the two emperors from the hills of Cappadocia to the desert of Bagdad. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Egypt, or Spain, the kings of France and Italy, and the Latin emperors of ancient Rome. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Moreover, we find that Pliny, and other ancient authors, report a multitude of rescripts of the emperors from the time of Augustus. ❋ Unknown (1206)

We have never been ruled by the equivalent of what you call emperors and dictators. " ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1983)

We are dealing with a country that was built upon thousands of years of brutal dictatorships known as emperors which are celebrated. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Across the avenue, past the statues of the emperors was the old barracks building. ❋ Gemmell, David (1997)

G.] 96 The charter of immunities, which the clergy obtained from the Christian emperors, is contained in the 16th book of the Theodosian code; and is illustrated with tolerable candor by the learned Godefroy, whose mind was balanced by the opposite prejudices of a civilian and a Protestant.] 97 Justinian. ❋ Unknown (1206)

The highest mark of negro capacity developed in this history is, according to the record examined by Barth, that one of the emperors was a negro. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

Their sovereign princes are called emperors, as in China and Japan; pacha, as in Egypt; ❋ Kensey Johns (1864)

Pride of descent takes many odd shapes, none odder than when it hugs itself in an ancestry of filthy barbarians, who daubed themselves for ornament with a mixture of bear's-grease and soot, or colored clay, and were called emperors by Captain John Smith and his compeers. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)

In spite of the virtues of such men as Trajan and the Antonines, the history of the emperors is a loathsome chapter of human depravity, and of its awful retribution. ❋ John Lord (1852)

Germany was a confederation presided over by Austria, the emperors were the chiefs only of this ancient feudalism of kings, dukes, and electors. ❋ Alphonse De Lamartine (1829)

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