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Queen's Counsel   /kwinz kˈaʊnsəl/   Listen
Queen's Counsel

noun
1.
Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a queen.






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... cessation of all further resistance to the policy of the Court, the law offices of the Crown were more than once refused to him, and it was only after the publication of his "Essays" that he could obtain some slight promotion as a Queen's Counsel. The moral weakness which more and more disclosed itself is the best justification of the Queen in her reluctance—a reluctance so greatly in contrast with her ordinary course—to bring the wisest head in her realm to her Council-board. The ...
— History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) - Puritan England, 1603-1660 • John Richard Green



Words linked to "Queen's Counsel" :   Counsel to the Crown



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