habsburgian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to (either branch of) the House of Habsburg, to the Habsburg Monarchy or to the rule of individual Habsburgs.
Example Sentences
- "It was an attempt to preserve the teutsche Libertät, the autonomy of the imperial Estates against Habsburgian efforts to gain absolute power."
- "They most commonly employed a Habsburgian notion of state and society in which authorities were understood to be guardians of Indians, part of a pact between crown and subjects."
- "From that time on and for over a century and a half, the struggle against this “Habsburgian noose” and against the threat of a Habsburgian universal monarchy became the main concern of French foreign policy."
- "Before that time the Habsburgians had been for centuries the emperors of the German Holy Roman Empire until they were deposed by Napoleon in 1806."
- "The successors to Ferdinand of Aragon as kings of Spain were the Habsburgians Charles I (1516-1556, since 1519 Roman Emperor Charles V), Philipp II (1556-1598), Philipp III (1598-1621), the dedicatee of Stella's Columbeis (see above, pp. 456 ff.), Philipp IV (1621-1665), Charles II (1665-1700), and Philipp V (1701-1746)."
- "They did not imitate the image policy of the Constantinople emperors but that of the Habsburgians, saying that they were the equals of the Habsburgs."