| 单词 | septennialist |
| 释义 | > as lemmassepˈtennialist sepˈtennialist n. a person who is in favour of septennial parliaments.Esp. with reference to 19th-cent. debates about the length of parliaments. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > condition of being septennial > one who favours septennialist1817 1817 Detector No. 3. 11 Let me hope, Mr. Cobbett, that the annualists will consider the septennialists somewhat liberal, if they recede thus much from their opinion, to satisfy the clamorists for abridgment. 1820 Examiner No. 612. 13/1 To Annual Parliaments the objections of the Septennialists are singularly weak. 1892 Rev. of Reviews 5 3/2 Balfour is too ardent a Septennialist to sanction a premature dissolution. < as lemmas |
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