Pride's Purge

American  

noun

English History.

1. the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons, carried out by Colonel Thomas Pride in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.

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Example Sentences

Indeed it was the very night before Pride's Purge.

From St George's Cross by Keene, H. G. (Henry George)

Pride’s Purge, a violent invasion of parliamentary rights by Colonel Pride, in 1649.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

Paris is in rumour: but at least we are met, in Legal Convention here; we have not been snatched seriatim; treated with a Pride's Purge at the door.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Explain: "Rump Parliament"; "Pride's Purge"; the "New Model"; the "Ironsides"; "Cavalier"; and "Roundhead."

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton

Do you mean to say," he demanded, "that you and I, for I suppose you count on my assistance, are to enact a kind of Pride's Purge of our own?

From Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia by Johnston, Mary