| 单词 | old pretender |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOld Pretender Old Pretender n. James Stuart (1688–1766), the son of James II, who asserted his claim to the British throne against the house of Hanover, esp. in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715; cf. pretender n. 3a, Young Pretender n. at young adj. and n.1 Compounds 6. ΚΠ 1746 A. Arbuthnot Mem. Miss Jenny Cameron 277 Mister Sheridan..attended the old Pretender at Rome. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 58 An honest man could not call himself a Tory, which it was, in fact, as impossible to be now as to fight for the old Pretender. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 Sept. 13/2 He is so full of admiration for James III.—the ‘Old Pretender’, in common language—that he casts an out-of-time vote for him. 1997 Daily Tel. 29 May 13/1 The ‘Amen glass’ bears the cipher of James Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, and two verses of the Jacobite anthem. < as lemmas |
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