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Shogunate   Listen
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Shogunate  n.  (Written also Siogoonate)  The office or dignity of a Shogun.





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"Shogunate" Quotes from Famous Books



... sovereignty, and not the struggle of the lower classes to rise to political eminence. The tottering dynasty of the Shoguns came to an end, not because they were tyrannical, not because the people felt the special need of social amelioration, but because they saw that the Shogunate had been the instrumentality of usurping the imperial authority, while the nominal Emperor was shut up in his palace, and closely watched by the agents of the Shogun. In Japan loyalty and patriotism meant one and the ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 • Various
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Words linked to "Shogunate" :   absolutism, Stalinism, authoritarianism, autocracy, police state, tyranny, one-man rule, autarchy, despotism, Caesarism, dictatorship, totalitarianism


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