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Meanings of lord high chancellor in English

The highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords.

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Examples for "Lord Chancellor"
Examples for "Lord Chancellor"
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The whole office of the Lord Chancellor is a heap of anomalies.
The English Constitution
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The Lord Chancellor might appear to be an exception to the rule.
Success (Second Edition)
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I spoke to Charlie Falconer, who had succeeded Derry as Lord Chancellor.
A journey: my political life
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I am afraid the Lord Chancellor has given judgment-givenit against us.
The Channings: A Story
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I think I'll have you for my Lord Chancellor when I'm king.
The Bone Doll's Twin
Usage of lord high chancellor in English
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The lord high chancellor?
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
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And what, Lord High Chancellor of Plassenburg, think you of this masquerading?
The Red Axe
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The Lord High Chancellor, in this degenerate age, enjoys much more political power.
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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But, alas, who ever heard of a poet being made Lord High Chancellor?
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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Pearl Binder, 70-some-years-old, is the wife of the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
The new yorker
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By a daughter of the celebrated Lord Erskine, formerly Lord High Chancellor of England.
Helen and Arthur; or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
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Their recorder is Earl Cowper, who has been twice Lord High Chancellor of England.
Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722
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The Lord High Chancellor has bowed himself out backwards.
The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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He was made, by Charles the Second, Justice-General, and afterwards Lord High Chancellor of Scotland.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III.
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 / A Magazi...
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The Lord High Chancellor, at his best, appeared so poor a substitute for the love and pride of parents.
Bleak House
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After James I. had made Bacon Lord High Chancellor of England, he was accused of receiving bribes as a judge.
Halleck's New English Literature
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Fog everywhere, and at the very heart of the fog sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction
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394 Lord High Chancellor of England, etc. 396 Those prudent heads, that with their counsels wise
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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I suppose you have the wrongs of some injured lady to redress in your capacity of Lord High Chancellor of the Fleet.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet
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"And to think that I might have been Lord High Chancellor by now," he remarked.
A Prince of Sinners