Holy Alliance

noun

1. a league formed by the principal sovereigns of Europe in 1815 with the professed object of promoting Christian brotherhood but the practical object of repressing democratic revolutions and institutions. The English and Turkish rulers and Pope Pius VII did not join the league.

Holy Alliance

noun

1. a document advocating government according to Christian principles that was signed in 1815 by the rulers of Russia, Prussia, and Austria
2. the informal alliance that resulted from this agreement

Example Sentences

The poet, who went to fight for Greece and died there, typified "the holy alliance of poetry with the cause of the peoples."

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If anything could have disarmed the wrath of this Holy Alliance, the manner in which these words were uttered might have done so.

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What would not have been my fate, if I once had been in the grasp of the Holy Alliance!!

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We can easily fancy the despots of Europe forming another holy alliance, for the laudable purpose of suppressing democracy.

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Revolution lifted its head again in the face of the Holy Alliance, its first field being Spain.

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