单词 | repealist |
释义 | repealistn. A person who advocates repeal (in various senses). Cf. repealer n. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > illegality > [noun] > legal invalidity or faultiness > annulment or abrogation > one who abrogatora1602 evacuator1611 repealer1687 repealist1810 1810 F. Hardy Mem. James Caulfield 249 Lord Temple would..endeavour to procure a renunciatory act, merely to spite his opponents, and mortify the repealists. 1831 Fraser's Mag. 4 629/1 Such were the murmurings of some of the sterner repealists. 1893 News-Observer-Chron. (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 13 Sept. The repealists think they can force the silver men to come to terms and assent to the taking of the vote. 1930 Logansport (Indiana) Press 4 May 1/2 The repealists polled 492 votes and the bone drys 715. 1997 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 14 Aug. 7 The Depression, unemployment, and the fact that there were far fewer buyers of expensive liquor swiftly changed moralistic abstainers into equally moralistic repealists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1810 |
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