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/pɹəˈtɛktɝət/
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[ UK /pɹətˈɛktəɹˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /pɹətˈɛktəɹˌeɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty
How To Use protectorate In A Sentence
- A royalist divine also, during the Protectorate, did not scruple to quibble in the following prayer, which he was accustomed to deliver: -- "O Lord, who hast put a sword into the hand of thy servant, Oliver, _put it into his heart_ ALSO -- to do according to thy word. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829
- Suwanee coaled at an island in the Pacific which I do not care to mention, under a protectorate which did not exist then and which shall be nameless. THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN
- The Bantus are capable of a considerable degree of civilization, and their mental and moral qualities are higher than those of any negro race "The Uganda protectorate By Harry Hamilton Johnston: books. google.com The fifth and last amongst these main stocks is the Hamitic, which is negroid rather than Negro. WN.com - Articles related to SUDAN: Monitoring peace in the border badlands
- Her protectorate over the Danubian Principalities was replaced by the guarantee of the seven signatory powers, and she lost about a third of Bessarabia.
- Rue, of course, is a holdover from Lebanon's time as a French protectorate.
- Britain withdrew from British Somaliland in 1960 to allow its protectorate to join with Italian Somaliland and form the new nation of Somalia. Somalia
- Some European overseas empires, most notably the British, made a pretty firm distinction between the core modern state and the colonies, dominions, and protectorates that made up the empire.
- The line of demarcation was the colonial border between the British Solomons and German New Guinea that later became an Australian protectorate after World War I.
- With the advent of independence in 1961, the cultural gap between colony and protectorate suddenly assumed new and larger political significance.
- From these strongpoints, in the 19th and early 20th centuries the British established protectorates over the Malay sultanates on the peninsula.