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Meaning of "lese-majesty" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LESE-MAJESTY

From French lèse majesté, from Latin laesa mājestās wounded majesty.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LESE-MAJESTY

lese-majesty  [ˈliːzˈmædʒɪstɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LESE-MAJESTY

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lese-Majesty is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LESE-MAJESTY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

lese-majesty

Lèse-majesté

Lèse-majesté /ˌliːz ˈmædʒɨsti/ is the crime of violating majesty, an offence against the dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state. This behavior was first classified as a criminal offence against the dignity of the Roman Republic of Ancient Rome. In the Dominate, or Late Empire period the emperors eliminated the Republican trappings of their predecessors and began to identify the state with their person. Although legally the princeps civitatis could never become a sovereign because the republic was never officially abolished, emperors were deified as divus, first posthumously but by the Dominate period while reigning. Deified emperors enjoyed the same legal protection that was accorded to the divinities of the state cult; by the time it was replaced by Christianity, what was in all but name a monarchical tradition had become well established. Narrower conceptions of offences against Majesty as offences against the crown predominated in the European kingdoms that emerged in the early medieval period. In feudal Europe, some crimes were classified as lèse-majesté even if they were not intentionally directed against the crown.

Definition of lese-majesty in the English dictionary

The definition of lese-majesty in the dictionary is any of various offences committed against the sovereign power in a state; treason. Other definition of lese-majesty is an attack on authority or position.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LESE-MAJESTY


amnesty
ˈæmnɪstɪ
Christie
ˈkrɪstɪ
Christy
ˈkrɪstɪ
dishonesty
dɪsˈɒnɪstɪ
feisty
ˈfaɪstɪ
fisty
ˈfɪstɪ
hasty
ˈheɪstɪ
honesty
ˈɒnɪstɪ
immodesty
ɪˈmɒdɪstɪ
majesty
ˈmædʒɪstɪ
misty
ˈmɪstɪ
modesty
ˈmɒdɪstɪ
pastie
ˈpeɪstɪ
pasty
ˈpeɪstɪ
sacristy
ˈsækrɪstɪ
tasty
ˈteɪstɪ
touristy
ˈtʊərɪstɪ
travesty
ˈtrævɪstɪ
twisty
ˈtwɪstɪ
wristy
ˈrɪstɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LESE-MAJESTY

lesbian
lesbianism
lesbic
lesbo
Lesbos
lesion
Lesotho
lespedeza
less
less of
lessee
lesseeship
lessen
lessening
Lesseps
lesser
lesser anteater
lesser Antillean iguana
Lesser Antilles
lesser celandine

WORDS THAT END LIKE LESE-MAJESTY

bheesty
busty
chesty
crusty
dusty
dynasty
festy
frosty
lusty
nasty
pesty
resty
rusty
sty
testy
thirsty
toasty
trusty
vasty
zesty

Synonyms and antonyms of lese-majesty in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lese-majesty» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LESE-MAJESTY

Find out the translation of lese-majesty to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lese-majesty from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lese-majesty» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

冒犯君主
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lesa majestad
570 millions of speakers

English

lese-majesty
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लिसे - महिमा
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الطعن في جلاله -
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

оскорбление величества
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lesa- majestade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রাজদ্রোহ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lèse- majesté
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keistimewaan ini
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Majestätsbeleidung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不敬罪
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

왕실 - 위엄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lese-kamulyan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tội khi quân - uy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தேசத்துரோக-மாட்சிமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निस्तेज-महिमा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

küstahça davranış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

alto tradimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Lese - majestat
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

образу величності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lese - majesty
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έσχατη - μεγαλείο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lese - majesteit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lese majestäts
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Lese - majestet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lese-majesty

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LESE-MAJESTY»

The term «lese-majesty» is used very little and occupies the 157.006 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LESE-MAJESTY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lese-majesty» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lese-majesty» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lese-majesty

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LESE-MAJESTY»

Discover the use of lese-majesty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lese-majesty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dear General MacArthur: Letters from the Japanese During the ...
of language concerning this human can be punished as lese majesty. After all, the emperor is nothing but a descendant of the foreign chieftain who conquered this island country, Japan. He may not even be a true descendant. There is also a  ...
Rinjirō Sodei, John Junkerman, 2006
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Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts
The ruling elite, and palace officials in particular, are mindful that prosecution of the crime of lese-majesty tarnishes the country's image in the eyes of foreign governments and human rights organizations. In October 1987, as if to prepare the ...
Craig J. Reynolds, 2006
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The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages
Such crimes were called cas royaux and originated at the time when cases of lese-majesty first began to occur. The king was never objiged to give them careful definition or to list them exhaustively, and they tended to multiply in number ...
J. G. Bellamy, 2004
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Crime, Violence, and the Modern State, 1600-1900: Crime and ...
The impact of war on lese-majesty After the beginning of the war in 1914, Russian criminologists predicted a decrease in the crime of lese-majesty. They hoped that general patriotic enthusiasm, the conscription to the army of potential  ...
Judith Rowbotham, Marianna Muravyeva, David Nash, 2013
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Dictionary Of Public Administration
U.C. Mandal. Less Developed Countries (LDCs) 263 Lender A term which can refer to the institution making the loan or to the individual representing the firm. For example, loan officers are often referred to as "lenders." Lese Majesty Lese ...
U.C. Mandal, 2007
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The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the ...
offences of this same description were, by the wisdom of the ancestors of those who number ancestry among their possessions, denominated and distinguished. Of lese majesty a division was made, but with little difference, between its parts, ...
Jeremy Bentham, 1841
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Garner's Modern American Usage
The preferred form of this originally legal term—meaning “a crime against the state, esp. against the ruler” or “an attack on a custom or traditional belief”—is the anglicized lese majesty. The variant spellings should be avoided. In BrE, the ...
Bryan Garner, 2009
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The Law of Treason and Treason Trials in Later Medieval France
Helping a convict escape from prison was also lese-majesty in his opinion, as was the porte d'armes notable.TM But in none of what Pape, Juvenal des Ursins or Masuer wrote were there any signif1cant departures from previous thinking.
S. H. Cuttler, 2003
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Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945
Among these abuses one reads: "Item, at certain places when a criminal is punished with death, except in cases of lese majesty or in other cases where the criminal has not forfeited life and property, the wife and children are reduced to ...
Elizabeth J. Perry
10
The history of the French revolution
Rome, according to Tacitus, a law which specified the crimes ot state and of lese- majesty, and decreed capital punishment. These crimes of lese-majesty, under the republic, were reduced to four kinds : if an army had been abandoned in an ...
Adolphe Thiers, 1856

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LESE-MAJESTY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lese-majesty is used in the context of the following news items.
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The BBC is being asked to defend its funding and it doesn't like it …
... of people who have run other broadcasting bodies to advise the government on the BBC's impact on media markets is not lese-majesty. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Thai military court sentences 10 people to jail for lese-majesty
A military court convicted them of defaming the monarch and violating the Computer Crimes Act. Eight were sentenced to five years each, and ... «Dalje.com, Jul 15»
3
Thailand blocks human rights group's launch of Vietnam report
... the venue, including seminars about the human rights situation in Thailand and the country's harsh lese-majesty law protecting its monarchy. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
4
No selfie service at Wimbledon, please
... to turn a visit into the equivalent of a camel ride at the Great Pyramid – a personal picture opportunity– is a sort of grass-court lese-majesty. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
5
UN Report: Encryption and Anonymity Tools Essential to Free …
... intimidating political opposition and dissenters and applying defamation and lese-majesty laws to silence journalists, defenders and activists. «Center for Democracy and Technology, Jun 15»
6
Brexit, Grexit, with the possibility of Spexit. Whose bright idea was this?
... trying to get a selfie with her in the background. It would be lese-majesty to take an amateur unflattering shot of this legendary supermodel. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
7
From plitter to drabbletail: the words we love
But in this context arse about face is positively lese-majesty. The word, which slips into the gap, like Cinderella's foot into the glass slipper, ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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Former Thai premier Thaksin investigated for lese-majesty
Police are investigating him over allegations of defamation, disseminating illegal computer data, and lese-majesty, according to a statement ... «Dalje.com, May 15»
9
Why live, when you can livestream?
Of course, it could be that Flanders' resentment of press intrusion and general sense of lese-majesty is greater than Miliband's. But why the ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
10
Thai junta bolsters royalist credentials amid crackdown on dissent
“The extensive use of the law is extremely ill-advised,” said David Streckfuss, an academic and specialist on Thailand's lese-majesty rules. «Financial Times, Dec 14»

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