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home ruler
noun
- an advocate of home rule.
Word History and Origins
Origin of home ruler1
Example Sentences
Salmond has sometimes drawn a parallel between himself and the great Irish home ruler leader Charles Stuart Parnell, a man who brought constitutional home rule to the verge of success before being forced out of politics.
Wibberley bowed, making up his mind that the dowager was one of those ladies with strong prejudices, who drag their skirts together if you prove to be a Home Ruler, and leave the room if you mention Sir Charles Dilke.
It seemed a stretch of severity when the claim to have been severely treated is the most telling feather in an Irish cap, when the fact of having been silenced in a new way inflates the lungs, if it does not strengthen the hands, of a Home Ruler.
If I had lived in Ireland, and seen my poor wife and children driven into the street, I think I might have been a Home Ruler—no doubt of it.
He apostatized, for party purposes, when he became a Home Ruler, and he will apostatize again whenever it suits his ambition to do so.
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