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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
in colonial times, a person in favor of self-government.
Quotations
1833
We are the friends of justice, freedom, and independence, and these virtues we shall always respect and reverence whether they be found in a Radical, a Whig, or a Tory.
1838
We have here Tories, Whigs, and Radicals, so called; but these words do not signify exactly what we mean by the same designations at home.
1942
If the scattered farms at Cobequid could send so resolute a company, surely we might expect a large force from the stout Whigs of Truro.