states of the church
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It may be necessary to enquire into the origin and progress of the temporal authority of the Court of Rome—the means by which the aggrandizement of the States of the Church has been at different periods effected—and the only possible object with which a European congress can have replaced them under an antiquated subjection."
- "On September 20, 1870, Victor Emmanuel captured Rome, and the inhabitants of the district voted one hundred and thirty-three thousand to one thousand five hundred for annexation to Italy. […] Thus came to an end the States of the Church, the oldest continuous secular sovereignty then existing in Europe."
Usage
Inflected Forms
the States of the Church (canonical, plural)
State of the Church (singular)