MARY I

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• MARY I (noun)
  The noun MARY I has 1 sense:

1. daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)

  Familiarity information: MARY I used as a noun is very rare.

• MARY I (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bloody Mary; Mary I; Mary Tudor

Instance hypernyms:

Queen of England (the sovereign ruler of England)

Holonyms ("Mary I" is a member of...):

House of Tudor; Tudor (an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603))

 Context examples 

The loss of Mary I must consider as comprehending the loss of Crawford and of Fanny.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

'So very fond of me!' 'tis nonsense all. She loves nobody but herself and her brother. Her friends leading her astray for years! She is quite as likely to have led them astray. They have all, perhaps, been corrupting one another; but if they are so much fonder of her than she is of them, she is the less likely to have been hurt, except by their flattery. 'The only woman in the world whom he could ever think of as a wife.' I firmly believe it. It is an attachment to govern his whole life. Accepted or refused, his heart is wedded to her for ever. 'The loss of Mary I must consider as comprehending the loss of Crawford and Fanny.' Edmund, you do not know me. The families would never be connected if you did not connect them! Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)