NOUN
- King of England and Scotland and Ireland; he married the daughter of James II and was invited by opponents of James II to invade England; when James fled, William III and Mary II were declared joint monarchs (1650-1702)
How To Use William III In A Sentence
- They had taken part in a Jacobite plot against William III.
- The variety ‘William III’ has double, rich purple flowers and chocolate hips and rarely tops 1m tall.
- William III, after 1688, had twelve resident ambassadors as well as envoys and agents.
- As archbishop, he was close to William III and crowned Anne and George I, but, as a leading advocate of the Hanoverian succession, he was isolated by extreme Tories.
- In fact, word has it that the unbelieving William III even referred petitioners he turned away to his vanquished rivals.
- By 1699 he was again under royal patronage working for William III and Mary at Hampton Court.
- _Frederick Henry, John DeWitt, William III_, abridged Eng.trans. by O.A. Bierstadt (1907). A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
- He remained an assertive influence at William III's court, however, quarrelling and plotting against those whom he believed were thwarting his own ambitions.
- Queen Anne acceded to the throne on the death of William III in a riding accident at Hampton Court.
- -- 'Specimens of the British Poets', by Thomas Campbell, London, 1819, ii. 134, 'sq'.] [Footnote 5: Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset [1637-1706], esteemed the most accomplished man of his day, was alike distinguished in the voluptuous court of Charles II. and the gloomy one of William III. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1
