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Rump Parliament

  1. the part of the Long Parliament remaining after the purge of 1648 until disbanded by Cromwell in 1653
  2. the same body recalled in 1659 and disbanded in 1660

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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