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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a supporter of the Constitutional party; a Tory or Conservative.
See: Constitutionalist
Quotations
1893
By June of 1836 he had tendered his resignation to Lord Glenelg, though the change in the complexion of parties, resulting from the election of 1836, when the "constitutionalists" were forty-five in number, and the "republicans" seventeen, raised his spirits and his hopes of a speedy settlement.