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lords spiritual::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | first estate |
| Type of | estate, estate of the realm, the three estates |
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Things are quite different when the lords spiritual have no clear line.
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Henry of Bolingbroke, flanked by the lords spiritual and temporal, claims the throne in 1399.
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The number of lords spiritual remained at 26 all this while.
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So along with the MPs, there were the lords temporal, spiritual and fictional.
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The lords spiritual were chosen by rotation and the lords temporal were elected from among the peers of Ireland.
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Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit as lords spiritual, and 154 life peers have been created under the 1958 act.
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This, by implication, is the way the spiritual lords of the Church operate.
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Following this, the bishops and abbots had begun to run their newfound realms as temporal lords as opposed to spiritual lords.
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It is the fear of democracy, not the fear of God, which Joan puts into the hearts of the lords temporal and spiritual.
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