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Ghib⋅el⋅line

  [gib-uh-lin, -leen]
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–noun
1. a member of the aristocratic party in medieval Italy and Germany that supported the claims of the German emperors against the papacy: politically opposed to the Guelphs.
–adjective
2. of or pertaining to the Ghibellines.
Origin:
1565–75; < It Ghibellino < MHG *wībeling- (G Waiblingen) a Hohenstaufen estate in Germany

Related forms:
Ghib⋅el⋅lin⋅ism, noun
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Ghib·el·line   (gĭb'ə-lēn', -līn', -lĭn)   
n.  A member of the aristocratic political faction who fought during the Middle Ages for German imperial control of Italy, in opposition to the Guelphs and the papacy.

[Italian Ghibellino, from Middle High German *wībeling, name of a Hohenstaufen estate.]
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Word Origin & History

Ghibelline 
1573, from Ger. Waiblingen, seat of the Hohenstaufens in Württemberg. The name was said to have been used as a rallying cry by partisans of Conrad III at the Battle of Weinsberg (1140). See Guelph.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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