| 单词 | Tory |
| 释义 | Tory /tawr"ee, tohr"ee/, n. , pl. Tories, for 1-5, adj. n. 1. a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada. 2. a member of a political party in Great Britain from the late 17th century to about 1832 that favored royal authority over Parliament and the preservation of the existing social and political order: succeeded by the Conservative party. 3. (often l.c.) an advocate of conservative principles; one opposed to reform or radicalism. 4. a person who supported the British cause in the American Revolution; a loyalist. 5. (in the 17th century) a dispossessed Irishman who resorted to banditry, esp. after the invasion of Oliver Cromwell and suppression of the royalist cause (1649-52). 6. a male or female given name. adj. 7. of, belonging to, or characteristic of the Tories. 8. being a Tory. 9. (sometimes l.c.) opposed to reform or radicalism; conservative. [1640-50; < Ir *tóraighe outlaw, bandit, deriv. of tóir chase, pursuit] |
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