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Meanings of the three estates 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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Examples for "estate"
Examples for "estate"
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The company comprises different business sectors, including real estate and health services.
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No state income tax on Social Security benefits or state estate tax.
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Therefore as far as they're concerned it's just a real estate deal.
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However, the improved infrastructure should help in the long-term, estate agents believe.
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He told funny stories about selling real estate; he asked good questions.
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We, too, have our privileges; we, too, are an estate of the realm.
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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
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During those middle ages when all the intellect and learning was practically possessed by the clergy, they constituted a separate estate of the realm.
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We knew that the constitution of this country is a monarchy tempered by co-ordinate estates of the realm.
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The proceeding should have been by address to the three estates of the Realm, asking them to undertake the decision of the question.
Usage of the three estates in English
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This being touched with the sceptre, the three estates proceeded to elect their representatives.
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Not in opinion, Sir John, which is one of the three estates of the government.
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He had quickly assembled the three estates at Paris, all of whom promised the king their aid.
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This sturdy and wholesome contention among the three estates ended at last in the victory of the kings.
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Each estate voted as a unit, and two out of the three estates were sufficient to carry a measure.
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Thought the sovereign is a constituting branch of Parliament, the word is generally used to denote the three estates named above.
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Is it not, that Hastings really was plotting to defeat the new settlement contrary to the intention of the three estates?
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Everywhere, too, we find some attempt at representative assemblies, based on the principle of the three estates, clergy, nobles, and commons.
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Edward's plan was that the three estates-clergy ,barons ,andcommons: those who pray, those who fight, and those who work-shouldbe represented.
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These laws were made or altered by the free assent of the three estates in whom the law-making power vested by the Constitution.
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In August, 1452, a deputation from the three estates of the province waited upon Charles at Bourges, but did not obtain their demands.
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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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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.
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A full parliament of the three estates sat with the king at Westminster from February 28 to March 21, 1305.
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The Queen.-" Imeanthe three estates-theclergy, the nobles, and the cities."
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The Three Estates of clergy, nobles, and commons had existed in France from time immemorial.