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Pentarchy   Listen
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Pentarchy  n.  A government in the hands of five persons; five joint rulers. "The pentarchy of the senses."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pentarchy" Quotes from Famous Books



... Examine. Only upon this occasion I cannot help reflecting on a fact, which it is probable, the reader knows as well as myself. There was a picture drawn some time ago, representing five persons as large as the life, sitting at council together like a Pentarchy. A void space was left for a sixth, which was to have been the Qu[een], to whom they intended that honour: but her M[ajest]y having since fallen under their displeasure, they have made a shift to crowd in two better friends ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX; • Jonathan Swift



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