单词 | country party |
释义 | country partyn. Politics. A political party or faction which advocates the interests and claims of the country as a whole as opposed to the court or another particular interest, or (in later use) of country against town, the agricultural against the manufacturing interest.In quot. 1645: a military force rather than a political party. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > types of party generally (in various countries) country party1648 war-party1798 Conservative Party1830 Progressive Party1830 national party1847 Labour Party1850 Nationalist Party1884 Social Credit1935 Third Force1936 third force1956 demandeur1966 People's Power1974 Green Party1977 society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > other British parties digger1649 levellers1762 country party1763 court-party1763 mountain1829 fourth party1880 S.D.F.1893 S.D.P.1908 Bloomsbury gang1910 National Front1937 NF1970 1645 Moderate Intelligencer No. 4. 25 Sir William hath invited the Country party in Dorsetshire to come to him.., no doubt 2 or 300 foot will otherway come to them, and of older standing in Armes.] 1648 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 26 sig. Ll1v The Members were all tired out and departed, except the true Blades of the Faction, which with some few others (like chips in Pottage) of the countrey Party, made up a thin Conventicle of 60. Voters. 1675 Earl of Shaftesbury Let. Person of Qual. 32 The Earl of Carnarvon..came out of the Countrey on purpose to oppose the Bill, stuck very fast to the Countrey partie, and spoke many excellent things against it. 1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 43 A Country Party must be authorized by the Voice of the Country. 1763 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (new ed.) VIII. lxviii. 120 The elections had gone mostly in favour of the country party. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 25 The language of the country party was perceptibly bolder and sharper than on the preceding day. 1888 Times 3 Jan. 9/5 The Country Party and the Town Party were battling for supremacy under the rival standards of margarine and butterine. 1930 Eng. Hist. Rev. 45 73 The country party took steps for its immediate resuscitation when the new session opened in November. 1997 P. Edwards Nation at War i. 10 The importance of Australia's traditional rural exports underpinned the considerable strength of the Country Party. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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