TORY
\tˈɔːɹi], \tˈɔːɹi], \t_ˈɔː_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of TORY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative
By Princeton University
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a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.
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One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.
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Of ro pertaining to the Tories.
By Oddity Software
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A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.
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One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.
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Of ro pertaining to the Tories.
By Noah Webster.
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Formerly, in English politics, one who upheld the full rights of the crown; opposite to Whig; in the American Revolution, an American who favored yielding to Great Britain; hence, often used to designate those who are opposed to change.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Applied to a Conservative in English and Canadian politics: during the War of the Revolution, a royalist or supporter of the crown against the colonies.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A member of an English historic political party, originating with the Cavalier party of Charles I.
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One who during the American Revolution adhered to the British cause.
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Toryism.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. An advocate of the theory of the divine right of kings to reign, and of hereditary succession to the throne; an opponent of elective monarchy and of republican government;- a supporter of the union between church and state-the state maintaining the church by declarative act and endowment, and the church lending sanctity and spiritual authority to the acts of the state;-one who seeks to preserve the present constitution and to uphold the royal, ecclesiastical, and aristocratical institutions, as being in themselves right and good, and who is averse to any change, especially in the way of extension of democratical power;-an advocate of class distinctions and privileges, as opposed to the republican theory of equality;-a member of the conservative party, as opposed to the whig, radical, or progressive party.
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