Definition of "Saxe"

The Intentioun of the Empreour is sic, that he will put from the Impyre, the Palsgraue and Duke August of Saxe […]

1572, The copie of the Proclamatioun set furth be the kingis Maiestie and his Counsall, for ane Conuentioun of the Professouris of the trew Religioun within the Realme […]‎

When Luther rose, the Duke of Saxe, being moved of God, did receive the Reformation peaceably into his principalities, without any force, and his examples was followed by other Princes and free cities […]

1669, [Gilbert Burnet], A Modest and Free Conference Betwixt a Conformist and a Non-conformist […]‎, page 17

If Prussian policy represented the extreme of encouraging the dissolution of Judaism through inner decay, in Saxe–Weimar it was deemed best to break the bonds of tradition forcibly in order to speed up the process of amalgamation.

1988, Michael A. Meyer, Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism, page 104