English Revolution

American  

noun

1. the events of 1688–89 by which James II was expelled and the sovereignty conferred on William and Mary.

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Example Sentences

This famous old building witnessed in this way the earliest steps that led to the English Revolution, and it is kept in quite good preservation.

From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Cook, Joel

The English Revolution of the seventeenth century was reversed when it undertook to reconstruct the mores of the English people.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

The English Revolution of 1689 produced a change.

From A History of the United States by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

At the period of the English Revolution," says this consummate hypocrite, Brownson, "the mass of the English people were buried in the grossest ignorance.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William

The English Revolution had weakened permanently the control of the British government over the colony, and consequently the power of the Governor.

From Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson