Definitions for Ghibelline

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Ghibelline Ghib·el·line

Spelling: [gib-uh-lin, -leen]

IPA: /ˈgɪb ə lɪn, -ˌlin/

Ghibelline is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in Ghibelline (beeghiilln).

Definitions for Ghibelline

noun

1. a member of the aristocratic party in medieval Italy and Germany that supported the claims of the German emperors against the papacy: politically opposed to the Guelphs.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Ghibellines.

Origin of Ghibelline

1565-75; Italian Ghibellino Middle High German *wībeling- (German Waiblingen) a Hohenstaufen estate in Germany

Examples for Ghibelline

The struggle between Guelph and Ghibelline was their opportunity.

He had resolved to reconcile the Guelf and Ghibelline factions.

This infuriated the others, and the town was split into Guelph and Ghibelline.

You have heard the tidings which have brought joy to every Ghibelline heart.

The town was fairly torn up with these nursery Guelph and Ghibelline wars.

You think, maybe, it were a sufficient excuse to say, "I did it for that he is a Ghibelline."

For myself, if we had a Guelphic order, I should choose to remain a Ghibelline.

He schemed all this with the aid of a Guelph that dwelt in Arezzo as a red-hot Ghibelline.

But this epoch of Ghibelline prepotency in Tuscany was brief.

Rome is as Ghibelline at this hour as if the Pope had lived forever at Viterbo!