| 单词 | repeal meeting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrepeal meeting C1. General attributive (in sense 2b(a)), as repeal meeting, repeal party, etc. Now historical. ΚΠ 1833 Johnstone's Polit. Reg. 31 Jan. 2/1 The Repeal party is powerful in numbers, and still more so in the weight of the constituency which it represents. 1845 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. 164 Ireland, we fear, is on the brink of something like a servile war—the effect, not of Repeal agitation, but of the severe distress. 1890 C. G. Duffy Thomas Davis vi. 217 The Repeal members were summoned to attend the weekly meetings at Conciliation Hall. 1921 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 186 Repeal organisations, Fenianism and Home Rule and Land League..[were] eager to forward any movement of violence and unrest. 1966 L. J. McCaffrey Daniel O'Connell & Repeal Year ii. 70 The most important cogs in the Repeal machinery on the local level were the priests. 1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 116 He was unable to prevent temperance bands from playing at Repeal meetings. < as lemmas |
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