Meaning of Triumvirate | Babel Free

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1. A council of three magistrates ruling jointly; specifically, the First Triumvirate (60 or 59 – 53 B.C.E.) or the Second Triumvirate (43 – 33 or 27 B.C.E.); the office of a triumvir (“one of such magistrates”), or of the three triumviri.
   Ancient-Rome, historical
2. Any group of three joint rulers.
   broadly
3. Any group of three people regarded as significant in some way; also (rare), a group of three things; a trio.
   broadly, figuratively

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Examples

“[…] I muſt not forget⟳ to ſet dovvne a pretie jeſt, vvhich hath been reported by many as touching Lepidus: It happened during the time of his Triumvirat, […]”

“[H]e frets / That Lepidus of the Triumpherate, ſhould be depos'd, / And being that, vve detaine all his Reuenue.”

“Then vvas contriued a petition, as from the generalitie, vnto the triumuirat Gouernors; vvherein they ſupplicated, that by no meanes they ſhould reſigne the gouernment to any ſhould come⟳ from England, vpon vvhat tearmes ſoeuer, vntill ſix moneths after the returne of their ſhip ſent to the VVeſt-Indies: […]”

“I have⟳ therefore alvvayes endevoured to compoſe thoſe fevvds and angry diſſentions betvveene affection, faith, and reaſon. For there is in our ſoule a kind of Triumvirate, or triple government of three competitors, vvhich diſtract the peace of this our Common-vvealth, not leſſe than did that other the State of Rome.”

“VVhen Johnson [Ben Jonson], [William] Shakespeare, and thy ſelfe [John Fletcher] did ſit, / And ſvvay'd in the Triumvirate of vvit— […]”

“[T]hat violent and lavvleſs Triumvirate vvithin him, under the falſifi'd names of his Reaſon, Honour, and Conſcience, the old circulating dance⟳ of his ſhifts and evaſions.”

“In the mean⟳ time, my Lord of Bath [William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath] and Lord Hervey [John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey], who seem deserted by every body else, are grown the greatest friends in the world at Bath; and to make⟳ a complete⟳ triumvirate, my Lord Gower [John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower] is always of their party: how they must love⟳ each other, the late, the present⟳, and the would-be Privy Seal!”

“O hovv I curſed the cenſoriouſneſs of this plaguy triumvirate! A parſon, a milliner, and a mantua-maker! The tvvo latter, not more by buſineſs led to adorn the perſon, than generally by ſcandal to deſtroy the reputations of thoſe they have⟳ a mind⟳ to exerciſe their talents upon!”

“[T]he great triumvirate of Italian poetry, good sense⟳, and culture called her [the city of Florence] mother.”

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