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Hanoverian line   /hˌænoʊvˈɪriən laɪn/   Listen
Hanoverian line

noun
1.
The English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria).  Synonyms: Hanover, House of Hanover.






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"Hanoverian line" Quotes from Famous Books



... isthmus of Chignecto to the province of Quebec, and eastward from the uncertain boundary of the St. Croix to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It received its present name in honour of the Brunswick-Luneburg or Hanoverian line which had given a royal dynasty to England, and its first governor was Colonel Thomas Carleton, a brother of the distinguished governor-general, whose name is so intimately associated with the fortunes of Canada during a most critical period of its history. The first executive ...
— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot

... of doctrine. For I have observed ye, Master Darsie, to be rather tinctured with the old leaven of prelacy—this under your leave; and although God forbid that you should be in any manner disaffected to the Protestant Hanoverian line, yet ye have ever loved to hear the blawing, blazing stories which the Hieland gentlemen tell of those troublous times, which, if it were their will, they had better pretermit, as tending rather to shame than to honour. It is come to me also by a sidewind, as I may say, that you have been neighbouring ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott



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