tory
IPA: tˈɔri
Root Word: Tory
noun
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party, which evolved from Royalist politicians; historically associated with upholding the rights of the monarchy and the privileges of the established Church.
- (by extension) One who is like a British Tory; someone politically conservative.
- (Canadian politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, one of that party's predecessors, or an affiliated provincial political party.
- (historical, derogatory) A member of the political factions that sought to prevent the exclusion of James, Duke of York from the throne of England in the 17th century.
- (now historical, derogatory) An Irish rebel fighting against English rule at the end of the Confederate War and Cromwellian invasion; later extended to other rebels or bandits.
- (US, historical, American Revolution) A loyal British subject.
- (US, historical, American Civil War, Confederate states) A Union sympathizer.
- A female given name
- A male given name
- Short for Tory Island, County Donegal, Ireland. [A small inhabited island off the north-west coast of County Donegal, Ireland.]
- Alternative letter-case form of Tory [(UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party, which evolved from Royalist politicians; historically associated with upholding the rights of the monarchy and the privileges of the established Church.]
adjective
- (UK politics) Of or belonging to the Tory Party or the Conservative Party.
- (Canadian politics) Of or belonging to the Conservative Party of Canada, one of that party's predecessors, or an affiliated provincial political party.
- Alternative letter-case form of Tory [(UK politics) Of or belonging to the Tory Party or the Conservative Party.]
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Examples of "tory" in Sentences
- There's no shame in being a Tory.
- I'm neither a Tory or a Canadian.
- They already had a ship, the Tory.
- Tory used geometry, but not a grid.
- Tory representations for upcoming words.
- Henry was listed as a Tory in this occasion.
- Explain what you mean by the word tory, gentlemen.
- Boucher was an ardent Tory and opposed the revolution from the pulpit.
- The 17th-century English parliamentary history is more interesting.
- If a tory is the prime minister or head of the large trade union called government.
- The Greasemonkey script repository is like the Firefox Extension room on steroids.
- I also think that history is a better place to look than fiction for examples of leadership.
- Similarly your obvious contempt of everything tory is a disgrace and you should be looking for a job with the Labour party as you are as deluded as they are.
- An English ultra tory is what we believe has usually been meant and understood in Canada by the unqualified term tory; that is, a lordling in power, a tyrant in politics, and a bigot in religion.
- But the committed self-sacrifice, the throwing oneself into the abyss of history, is a gamble of self-will that has to be made at the right time, for the right cause – and only the right cause.
- Their notions on such subjects were generally crude and undefined, and living in a country where the whole construction of society and habits of feeling were decidedly republican, the term tory, when adopted by them, was certainly a misnomer.
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