单词 | great commoner |
释义 | > as lemmasGreat Commoner Great Commoner n. the elder William Pitt (1708–78), 1st Earl of Chatham, Tory Secretary of State in coalition governments 1756–61 and 1766–8. ΚΠ 1757 Crit. Rev. Apr. 380 The change of ministry..has since taken place, as is evident from the two followings [sic] stanzas addressed to the great commoner. 1802 W. F. Mavor Brit. Nepos (ed. 3) 389 Whatever accession of honour a peerage gave him, the great commoner, as he used emphatically to be called, was now obscured in dividing his honours with others. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges ii. 89 There's the great commoner! There is Mr. Pitt! 1899 R. Bain Daughter Peter the Great xii. 301 ‘France,’ concluded the great commoner, ‘must not flatter herself that Hanover will serve as a road for her to America and India.’ 1948 F. B. Malim Almae Matres i. 5 Lord Seymour's house, transmuted into the Castle Inn, entertained many famous travellers, notably the Great Commoner, whose gout detained him there for weeks. 2011 J. Davidson Downing Street Blues 25 His own standing in the public eye as ‘the Great Commoner’ had suffered following his elevation to the peerage. < as lemmas |
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