Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)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.

Origin

From tetracameral + -ism.

From tetracameral + -ism.

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Forms

plural: tetracameralisms
Singulartetracameralism

uncountable

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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