DCHP-3

High Toryism

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the principles and policies of the far right of the colonial Tory party, epitomized in the Family Compact and the oligarchic arrogance associated with it.

Quotations

1885
He was voluble, and made many verbose speeches, the matter of which never rose above the veriest commonplace, but as it was always charged with emphatic High Toryism it was applauded to the echo by the official party.
1963
The chief results . . . of the flaring passions of 1849 were that the old High Toryism and the old democratic radicalism had reached their historic terms in Canada.