vetoistn.
/ˈviːtəʊɪst/, U.S. /ˈvidəwəst/, /ˈvidoʊəst/ A person who exercises the power of veto or supports the use of a veto; an advocate of the possession of a power of veto, especially for some particular purpose. Formerly often spec. (now historical) (a) a supporter of a veto on the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland; (b) a supporter of the Veto Act of the Church of Scotland; (c) a supporter of a local veto on the sale of alcohol.local vetoist: see the first element.
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > veto > legislative or political > one who vetoes or advocates veto
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1811 F. Plowden Hist. Ireland 1801–10 III. Index 2 Columbanus the Vetoist.
1815 Dublin Evening Post 19 Jan. 2 The Vetoists..have been routed.
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 31 355 The vetoists..intimate their disapprobation by hissing the unfortunate performer.
1840 W. E. Gladstone Church Princ. 489 The principle for which the Vetoists contend I believe is..really this [etc.].
1863 A. H. Charteris Life J. Robertson iv. 68 If..the vetoists desired to give effect to the people's conscientious objections.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 25 Nov. 5/2 Unless the Liberal Party is dissociated from the Temperance reformers and Vetoists..its future will be disastrous.
1936 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 8 302 The Irish hierarchy..split with the so-called ‘Vetoists’ (the Catholic nobility and gentry..) and paralyzed agitation for a number of years.
1991 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 21 July h5 Mr. Bush is not—not yet anyway—a champion vetoist.
2006 Afr. News (Nexis) 1 Oct. These new vetoists are not driven by any love of country but the love of self.
Derivatives
vetoˈistic adj.
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1847 W. Fagan Life & Times Daniel O'Connell I. ii. 128 Lord Fingall, and most of the old aristocratic leaders, had seceded from their councils; few of them who remained, were crotchetty and vetoistic.
1861 W. J. Fitzpatrick Life, Times, & Corr. Dr. Doyle I. vi. 154 Dr. Milner branded Mr. Plunket's bills as vetoistic.
1998 Offshore (Nexis) Nov. 178 There were indications from Russian officials at the conference that the vetoistic tendencies of the Duma are softening.
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1813 Let. 8 Oct. in Catholic Affairs (1813) 86 If..you and the other Protesters, should succeed in raising up a Vetoistical, or Anti-prelatical party in the country, it is utterly impossible that any public good could come from it.
1815 Antijacobin Rev. Oct. 415 With still greater injustice does this eloquent orator charge me, in the face of the Catholic world, with having gone over to Ireland on a Vetoistical Mission.
1862 F. C. Husenbeth Life J. Milner 155 His subsequent uniform opposition to every form of Vetoistical arrangement.
1911 B. Ward Eve Catholic Emancipation II. xxviii. 219 The harsh treatment which he considered he had received from Cardinal Litta and Dr. Poynter as the legitimate consequence of their alleged vetoistical tendencies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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