Ghibelline
Americannoun
adjective
noun
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a member of the political faction in medieval Italy originally based on support for the German emperor
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(modifier) of or relating to the Ghibellines Compare Guelph 1
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Etymology
Origin of Ghibelline
1565–75; < Italian Ghibellino < Middle High German *wībeling- ( German Waiblingen ) a Hohenstaufen estate in Germany
Example Sentences
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Guelph comes from hwelp or whelp, meaning a wolf's pup, and Ghibelline is an Italian attempt to pronounce the name of the counts of Waiblingen.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the trend had been beaten down through the centuries when the peninsula served as the cockpit of Guelph and Ghibelline, despot and noble, rival Spaniard, Frenchman and German.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moved by the reasons stated above, I believe, the Venetians encouraged the Guelf and Ghibelline sects in their subject cities.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
He preferred to take refuge with his most illustrious protector Can Grande della Scala of Verona, then a young man of twenty-five, rich, liberal and the favoured head of the Ghibelline party.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
Under this impulsion and the restless energy of Rainerio no time was lost in extending the institution in every direction save where Ghibelline potentates such as Ezzelin and Uberto prevented its introduction.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
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