Cromwellian

Examples

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• This sophistication should not surprise us too much, as it fits nicely with recent research that has emphasized the richness of the Cromwellian court.

  Academic text (2010)

• The strict laws of the Cromwellian period aimed to enforce moral behavior among the population.

• Even enemies of the Cromwellian regime had been impressed by the strength of the Protector's new ship.

  Academic text (2010)

• Remarkably few Cromwellian soldiers or sailors were deemed unacceptable to the new regime.

  Academic text (2010)

• This desire to display the very best did not just reflect the tastes of the Cromwellian circle; it also had a practical benefit when impressing foreign representatives.

  Academic text (2010)

• He had been a loyal Cromwellian courtier but soon became Charles II's Earl of Sandwich.

  Academic text (2010)

• This was the last in a series of land acts designed to restore the land to "the people of Ireland," that is, the agricultural laborers, townsmen, and tenants whose ancestors had been compelled to give up their landed properties upon the Cromwellian conquest.

  Academic text (1992)

• George Monck, the former Cromwellian general who greeted Charles II on his arrival at Dover in May 1660, soon became the Duke of Albemarle and served as admiral during the Second Dutch War, just as he had fulfilled the same role (with greater success) in the first.

  Academic text (2010)

• In Britain, for example, the Westminster tradition of government and civil-military relations originated in ancient times, suffered and was defined through the Cromwellian era, and then matured under Wellington's dominion and continually thereafter until the British civil-military disputes of the First World War.

  Academic text (2001)

• Many social reforms during the Cromwellian era reflected Oliver Cromwell's desire for a pious society.

How Strict

draconian

• Formal

27 8.9

Cromwellian

1 9.9

strict

371 3.2

austere

10 7.2

lenient

31 4.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology