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shogunate
/ ˈʃəʊɡʊnɪt; -ˌneɪt /
noun
- Japanese history the office or rule of a shogun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shogunate1
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Example Sentences
For nearly three hundred years the Shogunate exercised great power.
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Most of the Shogunate troops were organised according to the old system of the Middle Ages.
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Towards the later years of the Shogunate it possessed a small but creditable navy in the European style.
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It follows, therefore, that when a great feudal lord became an open enemy of the Shogunate, his opposition was an organised power.
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The same thing was done even down to the last days of the Shogunate, though on a limited scale and less frequently.
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