单词 | home-ruling |
释义 | > as lemmasHome-ˈRuling 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. < as lemmas |
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