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One who rescinds
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repealer
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who repeals. 2 One who seeks a repeal; specifically, an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Repealer \Re*peal"er\ (-?r), n. One who repeals; one who seeks a repeal; specifically, an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.
Usage examples of repealer.
Irish repealer rose and announced that the government were bartering their Corn Bill to secure coercion to Ireland.
But the more lenient government showed itself, the more bold and insolent the repealers became.
But the operations of government against the repealers did not stop here.
The contests between the two sections of repealers ended in the secession of the Young Irelanders from the Repeal Association.
This circumstance made repealers of numbers of Irishmen who were neither Celtic in race nor Roman in creed.
The spirit in which this result was received at Conciliation Hall, and its effect upon the hopes and aspirations of the people, may be gathered most readily from the address of the General Election Committee of the Repealers to the people of Ireland, when the elections had closed.
The success of the repealers at the elections might be supposed as tending to quiet the country, as it afforded a constitutional medium of expressing their views.
The Chartists, like the Irish repealers, were divided into sections, characterised respectively by their profession of physical force or moral force.
That gentleman wished the Irish repealers to join the chartist movement, and to place himself at the head of both.
Fox gave notice of a motion for holding a parliament in Ireland, which, on the 26th, he withdrew, amidst the derisive laughter of the house, the honourable member assuring it that he deprecated the union of repealers and republicans in Ireland.
The moral-force Repealers kept up a certain amount of clamour: said much, but not to any purpose, and did nothing.
Thomas found himself back in the hall propelled inwards by the rush of Repealers sensing trouble.
Ireland sent into the house of commons a large body of Catholic repealers, there was no chance of such a consummation.
Ireland, and it did not sink the qualification to a scale sufficiently low to ensure the return of all repealers to the reformed parliament.
Stanley with bitter hostility, arising partly from the vigour with which he repelled the attack of the repealers, and from the supposition that he was not disposed to give up any of the revenues of the Irish church.