单词 | nullificator |
释义 | nullificatorn. U.S. Now historical. A person who advocates nullification (see nullification n. 2). ΚΠ 1830 Massachusetts Spy 27 Oct. 2/6 It is to be hoped that if the nullificators do move, it will be to Mexico, or beyond the Rocky Mountains. 1847 Spectator 20 Mar. 266/1 Mr. Calhoun, the great Nullificator, declares that ‘the South must now take its stand.’ 1879 J. J. Lalor tr. H. Von Holst Constit. & Polit. Hist. U.S. II. 625 That Jackson's old mistrust of the ‘honest nullificator’,..might not be awakened, he was approached by a circuitous way. 1923 W. L. Phelps Some Makers Amer. Lit. iii. 71 Webster was against every foe of the Union, whether the foe called himself Southern Nullificator or Northern Abolitionist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1830 |
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