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Meanings of estate of the realm in English
A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights.
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1
We, too, have our privileges; we, too, are an estate of the realm.
2
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
3
During those middle ages when all the intellect and learning was practically possessed by the clergy, they constituted a separate estate of the realm.
4
We knew that the constitution of this country is a monarchy tempered by co-ordinate estates of the realm.
5
The proceeding should have been by address to the three estates of the Realm, asking them to undertake the decision of the question.
6
Their organization had been in three separate bodies, representing by election the three estates of the realm-clergy, nobility, and commoners (Third Estate).
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The three estates of the realm are the estate of the Lords Spiritual, the estate of the Lords Temporal, and the estate of the Commons.
8
When the Whigs obtained power in 1830, they found the three estates of the realm opposed to them, and the Government, therefore, could not proceed.
9
The work was completed in the Diet of the following year, 1627, when the estates of the realm gave their assent, and confirmed the measure....