The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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In 1780, remarkably, Richmond proposed annual parliaments and universal male suffrage, 138 years before the latter would be achieved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Popes rarely address parliaments, trying to avoid overt political interventions.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
The idea runs back at least to the influential 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, who instructed that “Acts of parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent parliaments bind not.”
From Slate ● May 26, 2026
Counting is under way in Scotland and Wales for seats in the parliaments.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
