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parliament
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Mrs. Dalloway
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- For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same; can't be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love life.†
parliament = legislative assembly that passes laws (existing in some countries)
- They went to the Tower together; to the Victoria and Albert Museum; stood in the crowd to see the King open Parliament.†
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- At Hyde Park Corner on a tub she stands preaching; shrouds herself in white and walks penitentially disguised as brotherly love through factories and parliaments; offers help, but desires power; smites out of her way roughly the dissentient, or dissatisfied; bestows her blessing on those who, looking upward, catch submissively from her eyes the light of their own.†
parliaments = legislative assemblies that pass laws (existing in some countries)
- She would become a doctor, a farmer, possibly go into Parliament, if she found it necessary, all because of the Strand.†
parliament = legislative assembly that passes laws (existing in some countries)
- And here a shindy of brawling women, drunken women; here only a policeman and looming houses, high houses, domed houses, churches, parliaments, and the hoot of a steamer on the river, a hollow misty cry.†
parliaments = legislative assemblies that pass laws (existing in some countries)
Definitions:
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(parliament with a lowercase "p") a legislative assembly in certain countries (that can pass laws)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) As a proper noun, you need to look at the context to determine the parliament to which Parliament is referring. For example, it could be the British Parliament, the European Union Parliament, the French Parliament, etc.