Bible Dictionaries
May Laws

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

See Kulturkampf, above.

(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).

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'May Laws'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/may-laws.html. 1828.