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/ˈkɑnstəns/
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NOUN
- the council in 1414-1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church
- a lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River
How To Use Constance In A Sentence
- From the North Sea island of Sylt to Lake Constance on the Swiss border, an increasing number of guests are spending their vacations abstaining from food at wellness hotels that offer a fasting program. The Fast Road to a Healthier Holiday
- Constance's husband is a financial analyst.
- Even his honeymoon to northern Italy in 1833, on his marriage to Constance Mundy of Markeaton, Derbyshire, turned into a botanising trip.
- Only as the men left did he relax sufficiently to give Constance a glance of bitter complicity and move his lips soundlessly.
- For example, in "Winter's Tale" his account of the death of the boy Mamillius is evidently a reflex of his own emotion when he lost his son, Hamnet, an emotion which at the time he pictured deathlessly in Arthur and the grief of the Queen-mother Constance. The Man Shakespeare
- After an unnaturally long pause Constance became aware of this.
- John immediately rode for Chinon, where the Angevin treasury was kept, while Constance sent a Breton army to take control of Angers, in Anjou, where a meeting of barons from Anjou and Maine duly declared for Arthur.
- 'Constance Garnett translated 73 volumes of Russian literature, which included Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Herzen and many others, but translating Chekhov gave her more pleasure than any other work' Constance Garnett by Edna O'Brien
- Created by the founder of Le Cordon Bleu cookery school, Rosemary Hume – rather than her better-known business partner, celebrity florist Constance Spry, as is often claimed – poulet reine Elizabeth, as it was originally known, was a deliberate and tactful compromise between the luxurious and the thrifty for a country still under the dreary yoke of postwar rationing. How to cook perfect coronation chicken
- When Pope John XXIII condemned the Bohemian Reformer John Hus to the flames as a heretic, at the Council of Constance in 1415, he also anathematised the Englishman John Wyclif.