Lancastrian Definition

laŋkastrēən
adjective
Of the English royal house of Lancaster.
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Of Lancaster or Lancashire or its people.
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noun
A member or follower of the house of Lancaster, esp. in the Wars of the Roses.
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A person born or living in Lancaster or Lancashire.
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(aviation) A modified version of the Lancaster bomber, used in civilian service in the immediate postwar years.

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Noun

Singular:
Lancastrian
Plural:
lancastrians

Lancastrian Sentence Examples

  • Morton landed with Warwick at Dartmouth on the 13th of September 1470, but the battle of Tewkesbury finally shattered the Lancastrian hopes, and Morton made his peace with Edward IV., probably through the mediation of Archbishop Bourchier.

  • Morton no doubt impressed Lancastrian traditions upon Henry VII., but he cannot be credited with any great originality as a statesman, and Henry's policy was as much Yorkist as Lancastrian.

  • It became a borough in 1319 by a charter of Edward II., which was confirmed in 1342 and 1378, and by each of the Lancastrian kings.

  • During the Wars of the Roses he showed his sympathy with the Lancastrian party after the defeat of Henry VI.

  • John of Gaunt, indeed, at a time when it was possible that he would never obtain the Leicester moiety of the Lancastrian estates, seems to have made an ingenious but quite unfounded claim to the office as annexed to the honor of Hinckley.

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