Shogunally

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    By a shogun or shoguns. not-comparable

    "Unfortunately for Takauji's hopes of easy consolidation of power, Godaigo once again escaped custody. This time he fled to the rugged mountains around Yoshino well to the south of Kyoto. There he established a government in exile and thus provided the incentive for a continuing struggle between the adherents of the shogunally sponsored Northern Court in Kyoto and his own loyalist Southern Court at Yoshino."

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"Unfortunately for Takauji's hopes of easy consolidation of power, Godaigo once again escaped custody. This time he fled to the rugged mountains around Yoshino well to the south of Kyoto. There he established a government in exile and thus provided the incentive for a continuing struggle between the adherents of the shogunally sponsored Northern Court in Kyoto and his own loyalist Southern Court at Yoshino."

Etymology

From shogunal + -ly.

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