Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - tory
Tory
tory
n. & adj. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 colloq. = CONSERVATIVE n. 2. 2 hist. a member of the party that opposed the exclusion of James II and later supported the established religious and political order and gave rise to the Conservative party (opp. WHIG). 3 US hist. a loyal colonist during the American Revolution. --adj. colloq. = CONSERVATIVE adj. 3. Derivatives Toryism n. Etymology: orig. = Irish outlaw, prob. f. Ir. f. t{oacute}ir pursue
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noun (plural Tories) Etymology: Irish tóraidhe outlaw, robber, from Middle Irish tóir pursuit Date: 1646 a dispossessed Irishman subsisting as an outlaw chiefly in the 17th century, bandit, outlaw, 3. a member or supporter of a major British political group of the 18th and early 19th centuries favoring at first the Stuarts and later royal authority and the established church and seeking to preserve the traditional political structure and defeat parliamentary reform, conservative 1b, an American upholding the cause of the British Crown against the supporters of colonial independence during the American Revolution ; loyalist, an extreme conservative especially in political and economic principles, ~ adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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