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  • Flouted the claims of William III.
  • The Zealots' zeal for the Law and the Temple was flouted by their pro-Roman king.
  • Thus the two great houses of Orsini and Colonna, who had long fought for predominance in Rome and often flouted the pope's authority, were subjugated, and a great step achieved towards consolidating the Borgia's power.
  • In a speech at Stirling on the 23rd of November, Sir Henry appeared to him to have deliberately flouted his well-known susceptibilities by once more writing Home Rule in large letters on the party programme, and he declared at Bodmin that he would "never serve under that banner."
  • Erasmus never flouted at religion nor even at theology as such, but only at blind and intemperate theologians.
 
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