The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stadtholderate
Stadtholderate \Stadt"hold`er*ate\ (-[asl]t), Stadtholdership \Stadt"hold`er*ship\ (-sh[i^]p), n. The office or position of a stadtholder.
Usage examples of "stadtholderate".
They were flattered by a convocation of a representative assembly, on the principles of equality and liberty: an assembly which abolished the hereditary stadtholderate, with all the forms of the preceding constitution, published the declaration of the rights of man, reversed the sentences passed in a previous year against democrats, and recalled all those who had been exiled for their democratical principles.