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单词 castle catholic
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castle Catholic
castle Catholic n. Irish English derogatory (now chiefly historical) an Irish Catholic whose social and political inclinations are regarded as being aligned with British attitudes, culture, etc. [So called with reference to the name of Dublin Castle, the administrative centre of the British government in Ireland until the country's independence in 1922; compare sense 3d.]
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1848 J. Mitchel Jail Jrnl. 27 May (1854) i. 30 Some of the respectable castle-Catholics will thank me little for bringing their degradation so prominently into public view.
1938 S. O'Faoláin Daniel O'Connell (1986) iv. 194 Peel..began in Ireland a policy that many of his successors copied and developed—the formation of a class that became known as ‘renegade Catholics’, or, in mockery of their affected half-English accents, ‘Cawstle Cawtholics’.
2018 G. Mulvenna in T. P. Burgess Contested Identities Ulster Catholics (e-book, accessed 21 Nov. 2019) xiii. 188 Many who became empathetic towards the Union with Great Britain have fallen into the category of being ‘castle Catholics’.
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