Peeliten.adj.
/ˈpiːlʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈpilˌaɪt/ Political History.
A. n.
A member of the group of Conservatives who supported Sir Robert Peel and his policies, esp. his measure for the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, and who later continued to espouse his political views, esp. in relation to free trade. Cf. protectionist n.Even after Peel's death in 1850 the Peelites formed a discrete group intermediate between the Tory protectionists and the Liberals; their leaders, notably William Gladstone, eventually joined the Liberal Party.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > principles of or support for specific politicians > supporters of specific politician
Straffordiansa1675
Pittite1762
Foxite1782
Wilkitea1797
Burkite1807
Peelite1829
Russellite1835
Gladstonian1847
Palmerstonian1852
Parnellite1881
Chamberlainite1884
Churchillian1886
Cobdenite1887
Lloyd-Georgeite1921
MacDonaldite1924
Asquithian1928
Lloyd-Georgian1928
Mosleyite1932
Churchillian1933
Bevanite1951
Butskellite1955
Butskellist1957
Wilsonian1963
Wilsonite1963
Powellite1966
Powellist1968
Bennite1976
Thatcherite1976
Majorite1990
Blairite1994
1829 Times 19 Jan. 7/2 (advt.) This day are published, price 2s., Thoughts on the Roman Catholic Question. By a Peelite.
1846 J. G. Lockhart Let. 27 Aug. in Notes & Queries (1945) 189 164 We shall have on the hustings not only two but three different sections of soi disant Conservatives—viz Peelites—Bentinckites [etc.].
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. xxxviii. 284 They are going to turn out Oliver because he is a Peelite.
1895 Edinb. Rev. July 266 The Peelites..were soon merged indistinguishably in the Liberal party.
1919 S. J. Weyman Great House xxviii. 259 The Conservative Party vanished..to reappear a few days later in the guise of Peelites and Protectionists.
1948 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 9 189 The Liberal ministries formed by Russell and Palmerston were dependent on the support of Peelites or Radicals when attacked from the Conservative side.
1991 Parl. Hist. 10 126 The Peelites did retain some form of separate identity..even if this identity was only retained by their refusal to join the Whigs or Protectionists.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Sir Robert Peel or the Peelites, or their political policies.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [adjective] > relating to or supporting specific politician
Pittite1770
Palmerstonian1846
Peelite1846
Cobdenic1853
Gladstonian1861
Parnellite1882
Churchillian1883
Chamberlainic1885
Chamberlainite1885
Cobdenite1887
Cobdenitish1905
Winstonian1905
Lloyd-Georgian1909
Walpolian1909
Asquithian1910
Churchillian1912
MacDonaldite1938
Bevanite1951
Butskellist1956
Butskellite1956
Mosleyite1960
Wilsonian1963
Wilsonite1963
Powellite1965
Powellist1968
Bennite1975
Thatcherite1977
Thatcheresque1979
Majorite1990
Blairite1993
1846 R. Cobden Let. 4 Mar. (2007) I. 416 We are right now, whatever happens, both with the Country, & the Peelite Tories.
1847 Times 4 Sept. 4/5 The silence of the Peelite galaxy is still more frightful than the loquacity of Peel.
1859 Tablet 9 July 441/4 His gradual isolation even from the small original Peelite party.
1900 Daily News 31 Dec. 4/7 The century, considered from a political point of view, may be divided into the Eldonian, the Peelite, the Palmerstonian, and the Gladstonian eras.
1940 Amer. Hist. Rev. 45 645 It would be very interesting to know..how the proportion of landholders in the Liberal-Conservative (Peelite) party compared with that in the Tory-Conservative party.
1970 Eng. Hist. Rev. 85 497 As a Peelite Tory of the 1850s he vowed to follow a policy of being ‘a Liberal in the sense of Peel, working out a liberal policy through the medium of the conservative party’.
1995 Daily Tel. 19 Dec. 16/4 Gladstone never departed from the Peelite principles of frugality, market forces and a small state.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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