reform clubn.
/rᵻˈfɔːm klʌb/, U.S. /rəˈfɔrm ˌkləb/, /riˈfɔrm ˌkləb/ 1.
a. A club instituted to promote political reform. Frequently (with capital initials) in the names of particular clubs.
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1819 Times 19 Aug. 2/3 We stood counting the members of the Oldham Female Reform Club in their procession by us.
1831 Belfast News-let. 28 Jan. The object of the meeting, was to deliberate on the propriety of establishing a Reform Club in Belfast.
1835 Times 16 June 5/6 People have heard of the Middlesex Reform Club. It seems that this formidable ‘corporation’ is on the eve of dissolution.
1880 Liverpool Mercury 3 Dec. 5/1 The Earl of Dalhousie was entertained..at the Liverpool Reform Club.
1902 Times 15 July 7/ At the Manchester Reform Club yesterday, a conference took place between the representatives of the Liberal and Labour parties in the division.
1936 A. Bryant Amer. Ideal v. 191 The enthusiasm with which he preached it, in and out of season, presently made him a leading light in the New York Reform Club.
1967 R. Starr Urban Choices xii. 269 The elected leaders of the reform clubs are quite conscious of their need to keep the disappointed in the club.
2007 J. M. Zeitz White Ethnic N.Y. viii. 172 The Italian and Irish voters who still supported Democratic candidates with any regularity tended to favor the machine over the new reformclubs that were contesting the old leadership for control of the party.
b. spec. With capital initials. (The name of) a London club in Pall Mall, founded in 1836 for supporters of the Great Reform Act of 1832.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British political associations > [noun] > Reform Club
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1836 Times 12 Aug. 5/2 A meeting..was held yesterday morning at the Reform Club, in Pall-mall.
1837 Times 27 Nov. 5/1 A numerous meeting of Whig-Radical members of the House of Commons was held to-day (Saturday), at 12 o'clock, at the Reform Club-house, Pall-mall.
1884 B. Potter Jrnl. 22 Feb. (1966) 68 Lord Rollo..is a member of the Reform Club, but seldom goes.
a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 42 One of the Reform Club dinners at which Charles Snow took the chair and captivated Harold Wilson.
1992 Spectator 19 Dec. 72/3 I have heard High Court judges and Treasury knights lamming into each other at the Reform Club, but..I shall not name names.
2. U.S. A temperance club. Now historical.
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1833 Philadelphia Album 28 Dec. 412/2 A man named Savage..became prominent as a..debater in the reform clubs and meetings.
1882 Cent. Mag. Dec. 187/2 A crowded convention of reform clubs in our town hall applauded.
1954 Waterloo (Iowa) Sunday Courier 20 June i. 12/1 Those interested listened to John W. Drew's temperance revival and organized a Reform Club.
2001 World & I (Nexis) Oct. 54 As early as the 1840s..members of..various reform clubs, and dry fraternal lodges..used a mutual-assistance approach to sobriety.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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