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

Thus we reach the strange result that the same free thought upon which, according to M. Guizot, the French Revolution came to grief was one of the most essential products of the religious English Revolution.

From Selected Essays by Stenning, H. J.

But after the English Revolution his power declined.

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

His lieutenant-colonel, William Henshaw, of Leicester, belonged to the line of Henshaws whose ancestor had fallen in the English Revolution in defence of popular rights and privileges.

From The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn by Johnston, Henry P.

While Burke was belabouring Dr. Price, he whittled away the whole theoretic significance of the English Revolution of 1688, but he remained its partisan.

From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel

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