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Labourite|ˈleɪbəraɪt|
[f. labour n. 2 b + -ite1.]
= Labourist, often used of members of Parliament representing the Labour Party in Britain, Australia, or other countries.
1903Daily Chron. 19 Dec. 5/5 Free Traders and Free Trade Labourites—40. 1909T. Hodgkin Let. 15 Nov. in L. Creighton Life & Lett. T. Hodgkin (1917) xiii. 326 It is this abominable selfishness of men whether Capitalists or Labourites which seems to wreck all forms of government. 1920Blackw. Mag. June 830/1 The moderate Labourites have reason to remember this. 1923National Rev. Jan. 646 The Labourites were led by Mr. Ramsay Macdonald before the war. 1927[see Anglo-Saxon IV. A. adj.]. 1955[see de Gaullist a. and n.]. 196020th Cent. May 452 He [sc. Michael Young] was the first of those Labourites who renounced the tired phrases of inherited socialist doctrine.
Add: Also (U.S.) laborite. (Earlier and later examples.) orig. U.S.
1889Denver Press 9 Aug. 4/2 The democrats were for the saloons and..only two of the laborites were for prohibition. 1913V. G. Simkhovitch Marxism versus Socialism 292 Whether they call themselves revisionists, reformists, laborites or plain socialists..the overwhelming majority of the socialists of today are tending to be reformers. 1949Time 14 Mar. 64/2 At least one powerful group of Catholic laborites, the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists, last week took sharp issue with His Eminence. 1973J. Speight Thoughts of Chairman Alf 56 That's your bloody Labourites for you. |