| 释义 |
Definition of country party in English: country partynoun historical A political party supporting agricultural rather than manufacturing interests. Example sentencesExamples - This could help the Tories because they do show themselves as the country party rather than the town party.
- His familiarity with a Tory radicalism rooted in the ideas of the country party enabled him, as well as the popular radicals, to draw on the republican tradition.
- By the 1760s all politicians regarded themselves loosely as Whigs, but the term was appropriated by the old corps who had regrouped as an aristocratic country party led by Rockingham.
- When the National Party formed in the 20s, it prided itself on being the country party.
- For a start, similar beliefs, often tied back to the civic republicanism of the country party, exercised a lingering influence on Tory radicalism and even popular loyalism.
|