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REALM

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 941 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REALM , the dominions of a See also:

king, a See also:kingdom. The O.Fr.. reaume (mod. royaume) was the See also:form first adopted in See also:English, and the See also:modern spelling does not appear fixed till the beginning of the 17th See also:century. The word must be referred to a supposed Med. See also:Lat. regalimen, from regalis, of or belonging to a rex, king.

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