HOLY ALLIANCE

Definition: HOLY ALLIANCE

HOLY ALLIANCE

1. (Hist.), a league ostensibly for conserving religion, justice, and peace in Europe, but really for repressing popular tendencies toward constitutional government, entered into by Alexander I. of Russia, Francis I. of Austria, and Frederic William III. of Prussia, at Paris, on the 26th of September, 1815, and subsequently joined by all the sovereigns of Europe, except the pope and the king of England.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definitions: HOLY ALLIANCE

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Holy Alliance A league formed by Russia, Austria, and Prussia to regulate the affairs of Europe "by the principles of Christian charity," - meaning that each of the contracting parties was to keep all that the league assigned them (1816). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Holy Alliance

The Holy Alliance was a coalition of Russia, Austria and Prussia created in 1815 at the behest of Tsar Alexander I of Russia, ostensibly to uphold Christianity in European political life but in practice as a bastion against revolution.

The Alliance is ususally associated with the Quadruple and Quintuple Alliances, which included Britain and (from 1818) France with the aim of upholding the European peace settlement concluded at the Congress of Vienna.

The Alliance is conventionally taken to have become defunct with the Alexander's death in 1825.

Historic Usage: HOLY ALLIANCE

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. (reference)
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Use in Literature: HOLY ALLIANCE

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	There was a Holy Alliance.
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Expression: HOLY ALLIANCE

Modern Translations: HOLY ALLIANCE

Language		Translations for "HOLY ALLIANCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		szentszövetség. (various references)

Pig Latin		olyhay allianceay

Russian		священный союз. (various references)

Spanish		la santa alianza (the holy alliance). (various references)
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Anagrams: HOLY ALLIANCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-l-l-n-o-y"
	-2 letters: heliacally.
	-3 letters: echolalia, halocline, helically.
	-4 letters: achenial, achillea, alliance, ancillae, canaille, clinally, clonally, heliacal, laically, lineally, lonelily.
	-5 letters: acholia, acyloin, aeolian, alienly, allelic, allheal, allylic, ancilla, canella, challie, chalone, choanae, choline, cleanly, halcyon, helical, helicon, hellion, hyaenic, hyaline, linalol, locally, lochial.
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