Definition of "stadtholder" []

• The chief magistrate, then later, hereditary chief-of-state of the Dutch Republic (mod. Dutch stadhouder). (noun)
• An office formerly held by Danish and Swedish officials best translated as Governor-general. (noun)

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• "Not long afterwards, when the King of Ternate seemed to affect our nation, the Dutch threatened to forsake him, and to join with his deadly enemy the King of Tidor, if he suffered the English to have a factory, or allowed them any trade; affirming that the English were thieves and robbers, and that the _King of Holland_, as they called their stadtholder, was stronger at sea than all the other powers of"
• "But though the cap is now exchanged for a crown, and the stadtholder is a monarch, the policy seems to flourish on the old footing of their close-handed fathers."
• ""stadtholder," and even the war against the monarch had been carried on in his name."