英和和英

名詞

1. Used other than as an idiom: see these,‎ islands.
2. (obsolete, figuratively) the United Kingdom, considered as a union of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland
   • 1813 February 5, Dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Exeter "Petition against the Roman Catholics" Hansard Commons vol 24 c382

     their claims are unconstitutional, inasmuch as they insist upon unqualified emancipation, with free admittance to all places of trust, power and authority in the executive government of these kingdoms, without suffering any of those guards and conditions to be applied which might tend to secure from future dangers or encroachments the Protestant establishment

   • 1846 September 15, C. Piazzi Smyth, Unto the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the Memorial of the Royal Astronomical Institution of Edinburgh in Astronomical Observations Made at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Volume 6, Appendix p.10:

     in the estimation of the most competent judges in such matters, the whole forms one of the most complete, though not the largest, establishment of the kind in these kingdoms

   • 1916 July 27, John Swift MacNeill "Duke of Albany and Duke of Cumberland" Hansard Commons vol 84 c1863:

     whether, having regard to the fact that the rank, style, and dignity of Royal Highness, Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and G.C.V.O., now possessed by His Royal Highness the Duke of Albany, a traitor in arms against the Sovereign and people of these countries, are held subject to the pleasure of the King, and the titles of G.C.B. and G.C.V.O. now held by His Highness Prince Albert John Charles Frederick Alfred George of Schleswig-Holstein, now also in arms against the Sovereign and people of these countries, are held subject to the pleasure of the King and are conferred or taken away by the exercise of the Royal prerogative on the advice of the Ministers of the Crown, he will, having regard to the conduct of those princes in becoming public enemies of these Kingdoms, by whose people they were maintained and educated, advise His Majesty the King to deprive them of these honours, ranks, and dignities which they disgrace