old-established
Britishadjective
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Every day an average of 2,000 people are crossing into Uganda from the old-established states of Western, Central and Eastern Equatoria in the south of the country.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2017
Being unaffiliated is not the same as being atheist or agnostic, but it does suggest a waning of evangelical institutional authority, just as traditional authority in the old-established churches began crumbling several decades ago.
From Economist ● May 3, 2012
After the family had moved west across London to settle in Putney, Judt was educated at Emanuel school, an old-established independent school in Battersea.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2010
Britain is like an old-established firm of high repute which finds itself, for one reason or another in straits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here we found an old-established empire advanced to its crisis; the magnificence and luxury of the great carried to the highest excess, and the people in a proportionable degree of oppression and debasement.
From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Hester Chapone
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