margravate

American  

[mahr-gruh-veyt] / ˈmɑr grəˌveɪt /

Also margraviate

noun

1. the province or territory of a margrave.

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margravate British  

/ mɑːˈɡreɪvɪɪt, ˈmɑːɡrəvɪt /

noun

1. the domain of a margrave

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Etymology

Origin of margravate

First recorded in 1695–1705; margrave + -ate ³

Example Sentences

I almost thought sometimes that I was in the Margravate of Brandenburg, and the Simmen valley looked perfectly flat.

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Sir Robert Montgomery secured from the Carolina proprietors a grant of the lands between the Savannah and Altamaha Rivers which was called the Margravate of Azilia.

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In 1400 A.D., the same year in which Charles VI ennobled the goldsmith Raoul, as a reward for financial help, Sigismund, equally embarrassed, borrowed 100,000 florins from Frederic, giving him the Margravate of Brandenburg as security.

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Anspach gave its name to an ancient principality or margravate, which had a territory of about 1300 sq. miles, with 300,000 inhabitants. in the end of the eighteenth century.

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The Margravate of Brandenburg and a portion of Lower Saxony formed almost the only great connected unity, except the Imperial possessions.

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