Both Uses of
parliament
in
Great Expectations
- The king upon his throne, with his crown upon his ed, can't sit and write his acts of Parliament in print, without having begun, when he were a unpromoted Prince, with the alphabet.†
Chpt 9 *
- There was a bookcase in the room; I saw from the backs of the books, that they were about evidence, criminal law, criminal biography, trials, acts of Parliament, and such things.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(parliament with a lowercase "p") a legislative assembly in certain countries (that can pass laws)