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单词 anti-Birmingham
释义 anti-Birmingham, -Bromingham Eng. Hist.
[anti- 5.]
An anti-Whig, a Tory; a nickname given to opponents of the Exclusion Bill in 1680; its supporters, who claimed to be ‘true Protestants,’ being ironically nicknamed by the Tories, ‘Birmingham (i.e counterfeit) Protestants,’ ‘alluding to false groats counterfeited at that place’; whence at length Birminghams and Anti-Birminghams, terms finally merged in Whig and Tory. See North Examen (1740) ii. v. 10. 321.
1681Dryden Abs. & Achit., To Reader, The longest chapter in Deuteronomy has not curses enough for an Anti-Bromingham.1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 256 Those who took the King's side were Antibirminghams, Abhorrers, and Tantivies.
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