MAY LAWS

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

See Kulturkampf, above.

2.
n.

In Russia, severe oppressive laws against Jews, which have given occasion for great persecution; -- so called because they received the assent of the czar in May, 1882, and because likened to the Prussian May laws (see Kulturkampf).


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