单词 | land league |
释义 | Land leaguen. An association of Irish tenant farmers and others, organized in 1879 by Charles Stewart Parnell under the name of ‘The Irish National Land League’ (and suppressed by the Government in 1881), having for its object primarily the reduction of rent, and ultimately the carrying out of radical changes in the Irish land-laws, e.g. by the substitution of peasant proprietors for landlords. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations levellers1762 Hearts of Steel1771 Peep o' Day Boys1780 Rightboys1786 Brunswick Club1828 Orange Order1828 Young Ireland1843 Land league1881 U.I.L.1901 Noraid1974 U.U.U.C.1974 INLA1979 1881 Times 17 Jan. 12/2 The Land League strikes at the root of Irish misery. 1881 C. Gibbon Heart's Probl. (1884) iv. 56 He could quite believe that the old tailor and his family had gone to America on some Land League commission. Derivatives ˈLand-league v. (transitive) to treat according to the principles of the Land League. ΚΠ 1886 Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 315/2 A Welsh Parliament, in which they might disestablish the hated Church, land-league the landlords. ˈLand-leaguer n. a member of or sympathizer with the Land League. Also U.S. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations > members of hougher1712 white boys1762 Steel boy1772 defender1788 United Irishman1791 Orangeman1796 marksman1800 Thresher1806 marchman1814 Orangist1822 Rockite1824 Brunswicker1828 Terry Alt1831 whitefoot1831 Repeal Warden1841 Young Irelander1844 Fenian1864 Land-leaguer1878 invincible1883 leaguer1892 Provie1972 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxviii. 432 I took a flying tour through the new counties in Southern Kansas. It was the year of Grangers, land leaguers and war on the railroads. 1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. VIII. 136 The incendiary speeches of the Land Leaguers. ˈLand-leaguism n. the principles or practice of the Land League. 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 1881 Sullivan in Macmillan's Mag. XLIV. 343 The Land League and Land Leaguism have kept the peace in Ulster on this occasion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1878 |
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