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self-denying ordinance

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self-denying ordinance

In the English Civil War, proposal 3 April 1645 that all New Model Army officers who were peers or members of parliament should be obliged to resign. The measure was introduced after the parliamentary army's failure at the second battle of Newbury and provided an expedient means of dismissing ineffectual Parliamentary commanders, such as the Earl of Manchester, without causing individual bitterness. Cromwell was reappointed to his position.
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But I surmised that it might have been the sullenness of a man unconscious of guilt and standing at bay to fight his "persecutors," as he called them; or else the fear of a softer emotion weakening his defiant attitude; perhaps, even, it was a self-denying ordinance, in order to spare the girl the sight of her father in the dock, accused of cheating, sentenced as a swindler--proving the possession of a certain moral delicacy.
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