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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The practice of having four legislative bodies or parliamentary chambers, such as the Medieval Scandinavian deliberative assemblies divided into separate estates for the nobility, clergy, burghers, and peasants. uncountable, usually

Etymology

From tetracameral + -ism.

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