peer of the realm
Noun
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Noun
peer of the realm
- (UK) Any member of the House of Lords who is not a life peer.
- (UK, historical) Any member of the hereditary peerage of the United Kingdom, (chiefly) of the Kingdom of England.
- circa 1591 William Shakespeare, The ſecond Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Good Duke Humfrey, iv. vii. 117
- 1707, John Chamberlayne, Angliæ Notitia 22nd ed., iii. iii. 276
- All Peers of the Realm being look'd on as the King's Hereditary constant Counsellors.
- Any similar member of the nobility of other kingdoms.
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