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Godwin

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God·win  (gdwn), William 1756-1836.
British writer and political theorist who believed in the perfectibility of human nature and maintained that people could live harmoniously without laws and institutions. His most important work is Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793).
Godwin [ˈgɒdwɪn]
n
1. (Biographies / Godwin, Earl of Wessex (death date: 1053) M, English, POLITICS: statesman) died 1053, Earl of Wessex. He was chief adviser to Canute and Edward the Confessor. His son succeeded Edward to the throne as Harold II
2. (Biographies) Mary. See (Mary) Wollstonecraft
3. (Biographies / Godwin, William (1756-1836) M, British, PHILOSOPHY: political philospher, WRITING: novelist) William. 1756-1836, British political philospher and novelist. In


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After Jonathan's return to Ireland his uncle, Godwin Swift, seems to have taken charge of him, and when he was six to have sent him to a good school.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
She was thinking of her evening dresses for the visit to Sir Godwin Lydgate's, which she had long been secretly hoping for as a delightful employment of at least one quarter of the honeymoon, even if she deferred her introduction to the uncle who was a doctor of divinity (also a pleasing though sober kind of rank, when sustained by blood).
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Edward the Confessor had a palace here, and here the great Earl Godwin was proved guilty by the justice of that age of having encompassed the death of the King's brother.
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
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