Habsburgian

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English

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Etymology

From Habsburg +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Habsburgian (not comparable)

  1. (history) Of or pertaining to (either branch of) the House of Habsburg, to the Habsburg Monarchy or to the rule of individual Habsburgs.
    • 1995, Olaf Mörke, “5: The political culture of Germany and the Dutch Republic: similar roots, different results”, in Karel Davids, C. A. Davids, Jan Lucassen, editors, A Miracle Mirrored: The Dutch Republic in European Perspective, page 145:
      It was an attempt to preserve the teutsche Libertät, the autonomy of the imperial Estates against Habsburgian efforts to gain absolute power.
    • 2001, Charles F. Walker, “Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780-1820”, in Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlos Aguirre, Gilbert M. Joseph, editors, Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times, page 49:
      They most commonly employed a Habsburgian notion of state and society in which authorities were understood to be guardians of Indians, part of a pact between crown and subjects.
    • 2008, Jörg Ulbert, “Chapter 3: France and German Dualism, 1756-1871”, in C. Germond, H. Türk, editors, A History of Franco-German Relations in Europe, page 40:
      From that time on and for over a century and a half, the struggle against this “Habsburgian noose” and against the threat of a Habsburgian universal monarchy became the main concern of French foreign policy.

Noun

Habsburgian (plural Habsburgians)

  1. (history) A Habsburg, a member of the Habsburg dynastic family.
    • 1985, Peter Bernholz, The International Game of Power: Past, Present and Future, page 34:
      Before that time the Habsburgians had been for centuries the emperors of the German Holy Roman Empire until they were deposed by Napoleon in 1806.
    • 1994, Wolfgang Haase, Meyer Reinhold, The Classical Tradition and the Americas, page 510:
      The successors to Ferdinand of Aragon as kings of Spain were the Habsburgians Charles I (1516-1556, since 1519 Roman Emperor Charles V), Philipp II (1556-1598), Philipp III (1598-1621), the dedicatee of Stella's Columbeis (see above, pp. 456 ff.), Philipp IV (1621-1665), Charles II (1665-1700), and Philipp V (1701-1746).
    • 2001, Jukka Korpela, Prince, Saint, and Apostle: Prince Vladimir Svjatoslavič of Kiev, his Posthumous Life, and the Religious Legitimization of the Russian Great Power, page 193:
      They did not imitate the image policy of the Constantinople emperors but that of the Habsburgians, saying that they were the equals of the Habsburgs.