Definition of "sceptres" []

• Plural form of sceptre. (noun)

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• "(for rulers are called sceptres, Ezek.xix. 14, the great Ruler is called so, Num.xxiv. 17), concerning the building of the temple, v. 7."
• "Battles will be waged, not for honor and glory, nor for thrones and sceptres, but for dollars and cents and for marts and exchanges."
• "From the chattel slave, or the serf chained to the soil, to the highest seats in modern society, he has risen, rung by rung, amid the crumbling of the divine right of kings and the crash of falling sceptres."