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political conservative supportingmonarchy and traditional political and social institutions. - adjective
conservative ,right-wing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Their notions on such subjects were generally crude and undefined, and living in a country where the whole construction of society and habits of feeling were decidedly republican, the term tory, when adopted by them, was certainly a misnomer.
Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844
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Similarly your obvious contempt of everything tory is a disgrace and you should be looking for a job with the Labour party as you are as deluded as they are.
Archive 2008-11-01 Not a sheep 2008
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The 17th-century English parliamentary history is more interesting.
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I also think that history is a better place to look than fiction for examples of leadership.
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But the committed self-sacrifice, the throwing oneself into the abyss of history, is a gamble of self-will that has to be made at the right time, for the right cause – and only the right cause.
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An English ultra tory is what we believe has usually been meant and understood in Canada by the unqualified term tory; that is, a lordling in power, a tyrant in politics, and a bigot in religion.
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842
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Explain what you mean by the word tory, gentlemen.
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If a tory is the prime minister or head of the large trade union called government.
Politicians and bankers: Struggle for power | Editorial 2011
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