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  Palatinate

  noun

  the Palatinate, either of two historic regions of Germany that constituted an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire: one Lower Palatinate, or Rhine Palatinate is now part of Rhineland-Palatinate and the other Upper Palatinate is now part of Bavaria.
• palatinate
  palatinate

  noun

  a territory ruled by a palatine prince or noble or count palatine

Palatinate

American  

[puh-lat-n-eyt, -it] / pəˈlæt nˌeɪt, -ɪt /

noun

1. the Palatinate, either of two historic regions of Germany that constituted an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire: one Lower Palatinate, or Rhine Palatinate is now part of Rhineland-Palatinate and the other Upper Palatinate is now part of Bavaria.

2. a native or inhabitant of the Palatinate.

3. palatinate, the territory under the jurisdiction of a palatine.

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Palatinate ¹ British  

/ pəˈlætɪnɪt /

noun

1. German name: Pfalz.  either of two territories in SW Germany, once ruled by the counts palatine. Upper Palatinate is now in Bavaria; Lower or Rhine Palatinate is now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse

2. a native or inhabitant of the Palatinate

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palatinate ² British  

/ pəˈlætɪnɪt /

noun

1. a territory ruled by a palatine prince or noble or count palatine

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Other Word Forms

• palatinal
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Palatinate

First recorded in 1570–80; palatine ¹ + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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From here she can make out the sounds of helicopters nearing Ramstein Air Base, the U.S. military outpost in the hills of the Palatinate Forest.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2022

The row was first reported by university's student newspaper, Palatinate.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2022

The Habsburgs led a Catholic League, supported by powerful Catholic princes, while Frederick of the Palatinate, a German Calvinist prince, led the Protestant League against the forces of the emperor.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

And when Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Mr. Trump at the White House in April, she gave him a map of the Palatinate region where Kallstadt is.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2018

The greatest part of it was burnt by the French when they destroy'd the Palatinate: The Lodging-Rooms that are subsisting are very substantial, tho' not built in the modern Taste.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Due to its proximity to the warring Welsh, the 1,000 square-mile palatinate was granted much more power by the Crown than any other English county.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2015

John Jonston, descended from a family originally Scottish, was born, in 1603, at Sambter, near Lissa, a city of the palatinate of Posen in Poland.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

"How sad you are!" he said, with a pitying laugh; "just like a man who has lost a palatinate."

From The Golden Age in Transylvania by Jókai, Mór

In 1596 restrictions were imposed on the powers of the chancery, and in 1646 the palatinate was formally abolished.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various

He was not only the hereditary lord of Glamorgan, but had received the custody of William of Valence's forfeited palatinate of Pembroke.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William