Rump Parliament
Syllabification: (Rump Par·lia·ment)
Definition of Rump Parliament
Origin:
origin uncertain: said to derive from The Bloody Rump, the name of a paper written before the trial, the word being popularized after a speech by Major General Brown, given at a public assembly; also said to have been coined by Clem Walker in his History of Independency (1648), as a term for those strenuously opposing the king