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Long Parliament

Syllabification: (Long Par·lia·ment)
Definition of Long Parliament
  • the English Parliament that sat from November 1640 to March 1653, was restored for a short time in 1659, and finally voted its own dissolution in 1660. It was summoned by Charles I and sat through the English Civil War and on into the interregnum that followed.

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