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Commoner†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a member of the House of Commons or, in earlier times, of a legislative assembly.
See: Commons
Quotations
1833
The framers of the Canadian Constitution forgot the principle that the Dukes of Devonshire, of Cornwall, &c. and the other Barons of the Empire could not be affected by any law Canadian Commoners could make.
1916
When he first became a Commoner . . . he was too passionately chivalrous to be aware of his place on the stage of professional politics.
1957
. . . he had not been in office long enough to answer his fellow-Commoners questions.