D defs.my
Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

May laws

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01 See Kulturkampf, above.
  1. 1.
    See Kulturkampf, above. See: Kulturkampf
  2. 2.
    In Russia, severe oppressive laws against Jews, which have given occasion for great persecution; -- so called because they received the assent of the czar in May, 1882, and because likened to the Prussian May laws (see Kulturkampf). See: Kulturkampf