Meanings
plural realmes
- archaicArchaic spelling of realm.
I curse thee and exclaime thee miscreant, Traitor to God, and to the realme of France.
1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris2 more examples
This prince bare alwaies in the field a greene shield, whereof he tooke his surname, and of him some forraine authors affirme, that he made an attempt to bring the whole realme of France vnder his subiection, which he performed, because his father susteined some dishonor and losse in his last voiage into that countrie.
1587, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8)XX Thus beene they parted, Arthur on his way To seeke his love, and th' other for to fight With Unaes foe, that all her realme did pray.
1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921
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