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Gustavus

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Noun1.Gustavus - the last king of Sweden to have any real political power (1882-1973)
Gustavus VI
2.Gustavus - king of Sweden who kept Sweden neutral during both World War I and II (1858-1950)
Gustavus V
3.Gustavus - king of Sweden whose losses to Napoleon I led to his being deposed in 1809 (1778-1837)
Gustavus IV
4.Gustavus - king of Sweden who increased the royal power and waged an unpopular war against Russia (1746-1792)
Gustavus III
5.GustavusGustavus - king of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632)
Gustavus Adolphus, Gustavus II
6.Gustavus - king of Sweden who established Lutheranism as the state religion (1496-1560)
Gustavus I


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This I am certain is Philander the son of my Laurina's 3d girl the amiable Bertha; there wants now but the presence of Gustavus to compleat the Union of my Laurina's Grand- Children.
Love and Friendship by Austen, Jane View in context
Gustavus Adolphus and his Swedes passed through more than once, as is duly recorded in archives still preserved, for we are on what was then the high-road between Sweden and Brandenburg the unfortunate.
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim, Elizabeth View in context
He had accordingly stationed his brigade in such a manner that, viewed from above and from a distance, one would have pronounced it the Roman triangle of the battle of Ecnomus, the boar's head of Alexander or the famous wedge of Gustavus Adolphus.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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