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Pride's Purge (iou)



Pride's Purge noun phr. E18.
[from Thomas Pride (see below) + -'S1 + PURGE noun.]
Hist. The exclusion or arrest in 1648 of about 140 Members of Parliament thought likely to vote against the trial of Charles I, by soldiers under the command of Colonel Thomas Pride (d. 1658).