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Meaning of two swords | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Spiritual and temporal power, church and state.
    plural, plural-only
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see two, sword.
    plural, plural-only

Examples

“The most clear-cut definition of the Pope's possession of the two swords was given in Boniface VIII’s famous bull Unam Sanctam, which stressed the unity of Christendom under its single head.”
“[…] the dispute between the two swords cut deep into the countryside in ways that the authors of ecclesiastical and revolutionary policy neither intended nor anticipated.”
“In the crusader theology, the two swords were totally united and not divided as Bernard would have it.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

two thousand two thousands two thumbs up two touch two twos Two Waters

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