| 单词 | precursors society |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPrecursors’ Society b. Irish Politics. Chiefly with capital initial. More fully Precursors’ Society. A society, founded by Daniel O'Connell, which campaigned for the repeal of the Anglo-Irish legislative union; a member of this society. Now historical. ΚΠ 1838 D. O'Connell 18 Aug. in Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 20 Aug. 3/5 In order to organize the expression of the national will of Ireland towards making one more..attempt to procure from the British legislature full justice to Ireland, we deem it necessary to enrol a society, upon strictly legal and constitutional grounds, to be called the ‘Precursors' society of Ireland’. 1839 D. O'Connell Let. 29 Nov. in O. MacDonagh Emancipist (1989) vii. 182 Because I have dissolved my pour Precursors I am left on the strand with the tide out. 1847 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 14 643 Conservatives 39, Repealers 37, Whigs 17, Precursors 12. The precursors are understood to be gentlemen in the transition state towards repeal. 1907 Daily Chron. 4 Sept. 4/7 Precursor was one of the many names that O'Connell gave to his popular organisations. The ‘Precursor Society’ meant that it was the precursor of O'Connell's last resource—the Repeal of the Union. 1985 J. Biggs-Davison & G. Chowdharay-Best Cross St. Patrick viii. 155 In 1840, the Precursor Society, with its local counterparts had given way to the Repeal Association, renamed the Loyal National Repeal Association early in 1841. < as lemmas |
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