crass
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crass coarse, gross XVI; grossly stupid XVII. — L.
crassus solid, thick, fat.
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crassitude †thickness XV; gross ignorance XVII.
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Henry Ireton and the English Revolution.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; David Farr. Henry Ireton and the English Revolution. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer...these rivals for attention is surely Cromwell's son-in-law Henry Ireton, and in this new biographical study David Farr emphasises that...
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Bishop Ireton's Henry Holds On
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/7/2003; ; 560 words
; Bishop Ireton freshman Jeff Henry could have given up after...the par-3 8th hole, Henry's fortunes began to...said. On the back nine, Henry bogeyed Nos. 13 and 14...Gonzaga third with 409 and Ireton fourth with 429. Paul...
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Henry's Strategy Yields Title
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/24/2004; 414 words
; ...birdies to catch him. Henry, a rising junior at Bishop Ireton, played the front...past academic year. Henry shot a final- round...becoming the first Ireton player to win the title...past two seasons, and Henry, who won the 2003...
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Preserving property: history, genealogy, and inheritance in "Upon Appleton House."
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 12/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...objection of both Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton to the proposals of the Levellers...relatively small number of men. Ireton declared, "All the main thing that...60). Cromwell, complementing Ireton's invocation of God and nature...
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Passionate debate
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...and his son-in-law Colonel Henry Ireton (Kieron Jecchinis) were clearly...representing civilians, alarmed Colonel Ireton by insisting that electoral counties...represented by all their inhabitants. Ireton snorted, `We take exception. That...
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The Death of Oliver Cromwell.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell and his son-in-law Henry Ireton. H. F. McMains is an independent scholar who lives in...privately in the vault that had been constructed within Henry VII's chapel at the abbey. The public state funeral...
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Letter: Faking it
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 11/6/2005; ; 260 words
; ...this feeling likely to be changed by her reference to 'Henry Ireton's forgery of an entire Shakespeare play in the 1790s...know him not', 30 October). As far as I remember, Henry Ireton was one of the men who sent Charles I on trial. I assume...
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Such a cavalier approach.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 1/29/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...s execution, Oliver Cromwell's son-in-law, Henry Ireton, to remind Parliament of its duties. Placing armed...Young presenter Dr Tristram Hunt seemed shocked that Ireton's methods excluded the majority of MPs from attending...
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Red Mary just a hoof-beat away
Newspaper article from: The Press; 5/14/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...present herself to Cromwell's son-in- law, General Henry Ireton, who was laying siege to Limerick City. Her proposal...to retain property and power, was marriage to one of Ireton's officers. John Cooper (a cornet -- lowly rank...
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Power to the people This angry history of the struggle for the vote is misleading but lively, says Douglas Hurd
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/20/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...dramatic account of the famous debate in 1647 in Putney Church between Cromwell and Henry Ireton on the one hand and the Levellers on the other. Cromwell and Ireton argued that government must be accountable to men of property and this was the proper...
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Henry Ireton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Henry Ireton , 1611-51, English parliamentary general; son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He held various commands in the parliamentary...
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Ireton, Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Ireton, Henry (1611–51). Ireton was plunged into the Civil War, since he was appointed by Parliament...settlement, including reform of Parliament. At this stage Ireton was a moderate and had not despaired of coming to terms with...
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Levellers
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...centered around the franchise. Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, and a handful of officers represented the Grandees...officers of the NMA) against the Agitators, with Ireton taking the lead. Ireton began the attack by cynically arguing that the...
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Charles Fleetwood
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1652) Bridget, daughter of Cromwell and widow of Henry Ireton . He succeeded Ireton as commander in chief in Ireland (1652-55) and continued Ireton's work in directing the settlement of English...
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Edmund Ludlow
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...court that condemned King Charles I, signing his death warrant. In 1651-52 he was assistant and then successor to Henry Ireton in the subjugation of Ireland. He sympathized with the republican Puritans and opposed the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell...
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