parlementary
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to a parlement, a provincial appellate court in the Ancien Régime of France.
Example Sentences
- "Until the spring of 1560 the French parlementary system had made strenuous but increasingly futile attempts to suppress the Reformation movement by organized repression of public affirmations of heretical belief and behavior […]"
- "Parrot cries for silence on delicate political issues sounded increasingly archaic – and were quite unable to stem the rising tide of parlementary critique."