单词 | home rule |
释义 | Home Rulen.ΚΠ 1843 Metropolitan Feb. 40 ‘Francia's Reign’ seemed, by the enormities which it related, somewhat to stagger readers used to the comparatively sober quiet of home rule. 1848 N. Capen Republic of U.S. of Amer. 16 Their [sc. the American colonies'] distance from all civilized nations was a circumstance favoring exemption from home rule. 1854 Era 16 Apr. 8/4 Now advocating self-government, and now oppressing the distant dependency by the menacing shadow of home rule—the system under which we have maintained our hold upon the colonies, has been trying and discouraging in the extreme. 2. a. The government of a colony, dependent country, province, or region by its own citizens; self-government. Now chiefly with lower-case initials. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > autonomy > [noun] autonomy1591 self-governing1619 self-government1647 self-rulea1683 autarchy1691 autocracy of the people1792 self-management1809 self-control1812 self-governance1848 Home Rule1858 autonomism1867 merdeka1947 1858 Freemason's Monthly Mag. 1 Mar. 131 The independence of these United States in civil government..was shared in common by our Masonic citizens, who indeed were foremost in the struggle for Home-rule. 1886 Observer 28 Feb. 4/4 Home Rule for London, then, rather than police reform, ought to have been the chief question. 1916 L. Rai Young India 63 They would much rather gain Home Rule in India by peaceful means. 1929 J. Barr in Hansard Commons 10 July 957 I am not emphasising particularly Scottish Home Rule, because I recognise that in all parts of this House there are those who think that some measure of devolution is necessary. 1963 Times 28 Aug. 9/3 This part of his speech..paves the way to a local accommodation under which Guinea would get home rule. 1992 N.Y. Times 10 Mar. a15/1 Since Congress reviews ordinances passed by the District's City Council, both sides expect the issue to rekindle the dispute over statehood or home rule for the District. b. spec. With reference to Ireland: self-government (as opposed to British rule) through the agency of a national parliament; the movement demanding this. Cf. repeal n. 2b(a), republicanism n. 3. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > principles or policies whiteboyism1777 Defenderism1795 United Irishism1800 republicanism1807 Orangeism1811 Rockism1824 repeal1830 unionism1831 whitefootism1832 West Britonism1841 Young Irelandism1846 Home Rule1858 Fenianism1866 Land-leaguism1881 nationalism1885 Sinn Feinism1907 partition1919 Ulsterization1977 1858 Celt Aug. 244 Home rule can do those things, and it is only home rule can do them. 1860 A. M. Sullivan in Nation (Dublin) 28 July (Heading of National Petition to the Queen) The National Petition taking England at her word. The Vote for Home Rule. 1870 Morning Post 19 Apr. 7/3 The time has come when Irishmen should claim the restoration of their native Parliament, and upon that platform—Home Rule—I boldly take my stand. 1871 Times 9 Oct. 5/5 Home Rule is still the topic of the day. The country rings with the cry. 1920 Times 26 Nov. 16/2 Accepting the fact, as they did, that Ulster could not be coerced, Home Rule must mean partition. 1964 New Statesman 13 Mar. 405/1 The charge that there had been a plot..to crush Ulster's resistance to Home Rule by force of arms. 1991 N.Y. Mag. 16 Dec. 60/1 Charles Stewart Parnell, the Anglo-Irish hero of home rule whose tragic flaw was hanky-panky. Phrases Home Rule all round (also around): self-government (as opposed to British rule) for Scotland and Wales as well as Ireland. Cf. sense 2b. Now historical. ΚΠ 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Dec. 6/2 The truth is we want a good deal more of Home Rule all round. 1912 Chautauquan June 16 The question is whether ‘devolution’, or the promise of Home Rule all around, will remove much, if any, opposition to the immediate or first step—Irish home rule. 2006 M. Keating in M. Tewdwr-Jones & P. Allmendinger Territory, Identity & Spatial Planning ii. 23 Third, was the option of Home Rule, first elaborated for Ireland, adopted by William Ewart Gladstone in the 1880s and evolving into the idea of Home Rule all Round, the conversion of the United Kingdom into a federation of self-governing nationalities. Compounds General attributive, as Home Rule movement, Home Rule question, etc. ΚΠ 1870 R. McDonnell Irish Nationality in 1870 (ed. 2) 65 It would seem as if there was a somewhat similar combination of opposing elements among those engaged in the ‘Home Rule’ movement. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lxii. 380 Home Rule agitation. 1886 Morning Post 17 Apr. 5/3 The Home Rule members speak confidently as to the prospect of legislation. 1886 A. Carnegie Triumphant Democr. 16 The Republic has solved the problem..by adopting the federal, or home-rule system. 1904 Times 4 Oct. 7/2 The Unionist party and the country at large will rejoice in his emphatic reference to the Home Rule question. 1920 C. J. H. Hayes Polit. & Social Hist. Mod. Europe II. xxii. 325 The Home Rule Bill encountered furious opposition at the hands of the Scotch-Irish and English-Irish inhabitants of Ulster. 1975 Times 8 July 4/5 Señor José Guijarro Satústregui, the proprietor, is known for his Basque home rule sympathies. 2003 J. Dixon in H. Coward Indian Critiques Gandhi iii. 78 In February 1919 Besant's Home Rule League split apart over the question of Gandhi's campaign of passive resistance. Derivatives Home ˈRuler n. a person who advocates or practises Home Rule. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > principles or policies > adherents or supporters of unionist1799 West Briton1805 repealer1829 nationalist1849 Home Ruler1867 loyalist1885 Little Irelander1900 devolutionist1905 N1906 partitionist1921 1867 Times 30 Dec. 8/4 The indestructible right of home rule by home rulers for home good and benefit. 1914 Times 4 May 10/2 As a Home Ruler these 40 years, I see that to pass the Bill..must plunge Ireland not into peace and progress, but into chaos, faction, and blood. 1999 Herald (Glasgow) 6 Apr. 14/5 I'm a lifelong Home Ruler who believes that separatism will produce a Scotland very similar to a unionist one, except with different labels. Home-ˈRuling adj. that advocates or practises Home Rule. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [adjective] > principles or policies unionist1799 Fenian1865 Home-Ruling1872 loyalist1885 1872 Dundee Courier & Argus 29 Mar. The propriety of applying the Home Ruling faculties of its [sc. the Home Rule Association's] members to their families' and their own self improvement, rather than of launching them into the political arena. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 11 June 1/2 ‘We have changed all that now’, the Home Ruling Liberals will say. 1921 R. N. Gilchrist in A. Mookerjee Silver Jubilee Volumes I. xxvii. 596 Their nationality and national characteristics mean much more in the world now than they would have done as an obscure home-ruling federal unit. 2007 N. Veggeland Paths of Public Innovation in Global Age vi. 117 The Faeroe Islands and Greenland, two old Nordic-speaking identity nations within Denmark but with home-ruling governments, have made the political choice not to be integrated into the EU. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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