Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who electioneers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who electioneers.
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- noun One who
electioneers .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It had lain there fifteen years, since the electioneerer had stuck it there as easily as one might place it on a table.
The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams
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It had lain there fifteen years, since the electioneerer had stuck it there as easily as one might place it on a table.
The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907
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He was a great electioneerer, as befitted times when the claims of two rival dynasties virtually met upon the hustings, and he took a prominent part in the great Yorkshire contest of the year 1734.
Sterne Traill, H D 1882
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As an electioneerer, I can get away with any of 'em.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
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And the old, accustomed electioneerer led the way out to his work.
Ralph the Heir Anthony Trollope 1848
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He commenced with being a jockey; then he became an electioneerer; then a Methodist parson; then a builder of houses; and now be has dashed suddenly up to London, rushed into the clubs, mounted a wig, studied an ogle, and walks about the Opera House swinging a cane, and, at the age of fifty-six, punching young minors in the side, and saying tremulously,
Godolphin, Volume 2. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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A very few hours sufficed to show the sea-captain to be a most capital electioneerer for a popular but not enlightened constituency.
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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He commenced with being a jockey; then he became an electioneerer; then a Methodist parson; then a builder of houses; and now he has dashed suddenly up to London, rushed into the clubs, mounted a wig, studied an ogle, and walks about the Opera House swinging a cane, and, at the age of fifty-six, punching young minors in the side, and saying tremulously,
Godolphin, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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A very few hours sufficed to show the sea-captain to be a most capital electioneerer for a popular but not enlightened constituency.
My Novel — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Afterwards my father made a lucky hit, in getting my Lord Lansmere's custom after an election, in which he did a great deal for the Blues (for he was a famous electioneerer, my poor father).
My Novel — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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