repealern.
/rᵻˈpiːlə/, U.S. /rəˈpilər/, /riˈpilər/ 1. A person who repeals or advocates repeal.
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society > law > rule of law > illegality > [noun] > legal invalidity or faultiness > annulment or abrogation > one who
abrogatora1602
evacuator1611
repealer1687
repealist1810
1687 Marquis of Halifax Let. to Dissenter 4 If it shall be supposed, that all the Thankers will be Repealers of the Test.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. Introd. 9 They are..the makers, repealers, and interpreters of the English laws.
1782 J. Cookson Thoughts on Polygamy i. vii. 86 Christ was a repealer of the old law so far as it was ritual, ceremonial, local, and temporary.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. ii. v. 131 The masters themselves were the repealers and re-enactors of these laws.
1884 Law Times 78 98/1 If the Corn Law repealers had known of this precedent.
1944 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 29 267 The sheer fact that..approximately 10,000,000 citizens are disfranchised in the Solid South has given the repealers strong arguments for action.
1999 Boston Globe (Nexis) 28 Oct. a22 The repealers argue that some businesses in border communities suffer because New Hampshire and Rhode Island lack bottle deposit laws.
2. spec. An advocate of the repeal of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland. Now historical.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > principles or policies > adherents or supporters of
unionist1799
West Briton1805
repealer1829
nationalist1849
Home Ruler1867
loyalist1885
Little Irelander1900
devolutionist1905
N1906
partitionist1921
1829 Dublin Evening Post 15 Dec. 3/2 I applied this expression ‘patriotic dreamers’, not to the repealers, but to those..who entertain the notion of amicable separation.
1848 W. J. O'N. Daunt Recoll. O'Connell I. i. 10 Nor is the injustice of any individual government to Ireland the sole reason why Irishmen are Repealers.
1861 G. Smith Irish Hist. 180 The Repealers..betray their misgivings as to the soundness of their theory.
1900 R. Dunlop Daniel O'Connell & Revival of National Life in Ireland xiv. 348 Repealers from distant counties..had been bivouacking on it, some of them for nights together, under the open sky.
1960 G. W. Potter To Golden Door iii. xxxviii. 456 Enthusiastic Repealers followed the McGee line that the surest guarantee against famine was an independent Irish parliament.
1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 116 Peel, the Prime Minister responsible for the suppression of Repeal meetings and the arrest and trial of leading Repealers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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