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RECENT POSTSlèse majesté
layz MA-juh-stee
noun
treason; a crime committed against a king or queen
1898The Malady of the CenturyI will therefore dismiss the charge, if only to avoid the public scandal of a Member being accused of lese majeste.'1910Twenty Years At Hull HouseIt seemed that moment as if the hopes of democracy were more likely to come to pass on English soil than upon our own. Robert Blatchford's stirring pamphlets were in everyone's hands, and a reception given by Karl Marx's daughter, Mrs. Aveling, to Liebknecht before he returned to Germany to serve a prison term for his lese majeste speech in the Reichstag, gave us a glimpse of the old-fashioned orthodox Socialist who had not yet begun to yield to the biting ridicule of Bernard Shaw although he flamed in their midst that evening.1939Easy to KillSeems to think he's God Almighty and that anyone who disagrees with him is committing lese-majeste.Labels: Agatha Christie, Jane Addams, Max Nordau
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