Word Finder - guises

definition

Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)

definition

External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.

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Misleading appearance; cover, cloak.

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Under the guise of patriotism

Irritated by his opposition, the Guises compelled him to leave the court, and he died on the 2nd of December of the same year.

By habit a Catholic, but above all things fond of power, she was determined to prevent the Protestants from getting the upper hand, and almost equally resolved not to allow them to be utterly crushed, in order to use them as a counterpoise to the Guises.

He was well known to and favoured by both Catherine de' Medici and the Guises, and was very soon released.

He was simply Faust's "other self," appearing in various guises - as a bear, as a little bald man, as a monk, as an invisible presence ringing a bell - but always recognizable as the same "familiar."

France was helpless, the tumult of Ambroise alarmed the Guises for their own lives and power, and the regent, long in bad health, was dying in Edinburgh castle.

It was a consummation too ideal for that early date; and next year the regent, whose daughter was now queen of France and there mixed up with the persecuting policy of the Guises, forbade the reformed preaching in Scotland.

Fortunately for Elizabeth, Francis died in 1560, and the French government passed into the hands of Catherine de Medici, who had no cause to love her daughter-in-law and the Guises.

The Guises, strengthened by the failure of the conspiracy of Amboise, which had been aimed at them, abused the advantage due to their victory.

After three years the Guises reopened hostilities against Coligny, whom they accused of having plotted the murder of their chief; while the Catholics, egged on by the Spaniards, rose against the Protestants, who had been made uneasy by an interview between Catherine and her daughter Elizabeth, wife of Philip II.

A third party was once more formed, composed of moderates from the two camps, and it was recruited quite as much by jealousy of the Guises and by ambition as by horror at the massacres.

The Montmorencys, the DEpernons, the Birons, the Guises, were accustomed to consider their offices as hereditary property.

Throughout its existence, the Writers ' Guild of Great Britain has opposed censorship in all its guises.

The Soldier's Tale is a morality fable in which the Devil appears in different guises.

But when dealing with the sailing fraternity in all its various guises, this is not as simple as it sounds.

Lord Mongo prowls mad angry in a quarry, adopting various guises and railing his gob against a gyrating void.

The security issue has many guises No one wants to know that the external security threat is just getting worse.

Yet, I go on stage in various guises with the sole intent of creating a mood of goodwill with me at its center.

The computer, in its many different guises, has invaded the gallery space.

We are now accustomed to tracing such gradual effects in numerous guises, from acid rain to global warming to pesticide residues.

Over the years this has become almost instinctive, knowing how film will respond to its various guises.

The best of Gainsbourg, in all his guises, from louche lounge lizard through to seedy hipster.

These results should be seen as a wake up call for all right-thinking people to combat xenophobia in all its guises.

This fact, together with the strong Italian bias of the Valois, serves to explain in some degree the reason why the Counter-Reformation entailed those fierce entangled civil wars, massacres of St Bartholomew, murders of the Guises, regicides, treasons and empoisonments that terminated with the compromise of Henry IV.

A definite agreement was made between them at Joinville (December 31, 1584), the religious and popular pretext being the danger of leaving the kingdom to the king of Navarre, and the ostensible end to secure the succession to a Catholic prince, the old Cardinal de Bourbon, an ambitious and violent man of mean intelligence; while the secret aim was to secure the crown for the Guises, - who had already attempted to fabricate for themselves a genealogy tracing their descent from Charlemagne.

But the duke of Guises audacity did not make Henry III.

You'll also find their smartphones in Europe though Vodafone, and throughout Asia under a variety of guises.

These fabled swordsmen have been the subjects of films, plays and comic books and have shown up in a variety of guises.

The focus here is on indie rock, in all its many guises.

The Thugs were a well-organized confederacy of professional assassins, who in gangs of whom 10 to 200 travelled in various guises through India, wormed themselves into the confidence of wayfarers of the wealthier class, and, when a favourable opportunity occurred, strangled them by throwing a handkerchief or noose round their necks, and then plundered and buried them.

The queen-mother, however, soon grew weary of the domination of the Guises, and entered upon a course of secret opposition.

Persecution was revived by the Guises; Du Bourg, the brave defender of the Protestants, was burned as a heretic; yet Calvin could in the closing years of his life form a cheerful estimate that some three hundred thousand of his countrymen had been won over to his views.

She was wise with the wisdom of the Guises, but sincere friends she had none, and with all her trained fascinations she made few, except in the circle of the Flemings, Beatons, Livingstones and Seatons.

She had attained the age of forty-one when she at last came into power amidst the hopes and anxieties aroused by the fall of the Guises and the return of the Bourbons to fortune.

The Guises set aside, Coligny, supported as he was by Jeanne dAlbret, queen of Navarre, now received all Charles IX.s Coligny favor.

A murderous attack upon Coligny, who had opposed the candidature of Catherines favorite son, the duke of Anjou, for the throne of Poland, having only succeeded in wounding him and in exciting the Calvinist leaders, who were congregated in Paris for the occasion of Marguerite deValoismarriage with the king of Navarre,Catherine and the Guises resolved together to put them all to death.

Her kinsmen, the Guises, fell from power, and were no longer to be feared by England, so that Elizabeth need not abandon her favourite, Lord Robert Dudley, in the hope of securing Scotland by her marriage with Arran.

Diane, Montmorency and the Guises were all-powerful, and dismissed Cardinal de Tournon, de Longueval, the duchesse d'Etampes and all the late king's friends and officials.