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WAR OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An aggressive war waged by Louis XIV against Spain and the Holy Roman Empire and England and Holland and other states (1689-1697)
Synonyms:
War of the Grand Alliance; War of the League of Augsburg
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Meronyms (parts of "War of the Grand Alliance"):
battle of Boyne; Boyne (a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690; William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts)
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