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guests who stay in the hotel's most expensive suite live in monarchical splendor
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Selective enforcement of laws and displays of 'mercy' are monarchical, not democratic, tendencies.
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But his argument is, at its heart, neo-reactionary, and his implicit solution is monarchical.
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One suspects the Queen, who spent Thursday at Royal Ascot, where the crowds applauded her arrival, would rather her grandson had stayed quiet on the matter of monarchical destiny.
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In the case of monarchical incapacity, deposition was seldom resorted to because a general belief in the divine right of kings got in the way.
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If God had put the monarch on the throne - and the belief was a central part of monarchical legitimacy - then only God could remove him; mere humans had no right to.
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Where others may have recoiled from France’s monarchical infatuation, Macron looks set to embrace it.
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Marie Antoinette’s death followed that of her husband’s, and signaled the end of monarchical rule in France.
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Most of the prisoners at the Bastille had been sent there directly by the king without a trial, and the Bastille became a symbol of monarchical rule.
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First Known Use of monarchical
1793
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Definition of monarchical for English Language Learners
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: of or relating to a monarch or monarchy
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