lese-majesty
See also: lese majesty
English
Noun
lese-majesty (uncountable)
- Alternative form of lèse-majesté.
- 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 332:
- “ […] I allow neither perduellion nor lese-majesty against my sovereign authority.”
- 1943 July and August, “MAKING-DO”, in Railway Magazine, page iii, advertisement by London Transport:
- That is a phrase which was almost lese-majesty in LONDON TRANSPORT before the war, but to-day it is a different story. In fact we take pride in making-do, knowing what a contribution it is to the war effort.