Definition of "gouernment" [gouernment]

• Obsolete spelling of government. (noun)

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• "Cosmopoliticall gouernment thereof, vnder the King almightie, passing on very swiftly toward the most dreadfull and most comfortable terme prefixed."
• "Howbeit this kind of gouernment was peculiar vnto them, namely that all of one familie and society vsed a kinde of reuerence vnto their elders more then to any other, whom also, that their authoritie might be the greater, they called by the name of kings, and (albeit one of their families consisted of a 100 persons) they obeyed them in al respects, and after their rude and barbarous maner did them loyal seruice."
• "Whereupon their princes are called Can, because that vnto them belongeth the gouernment of the people by diuination."