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   Tory

   /ˈtɔːri/

   noun

   • 1. (in the UK) a member or supporter of the Conservative Party: "a poll showed the Tories thirteen points behind Labour"
   • ▪ a member of the English political party opposing the exclusion of James II from the succession. It remained the name for members of the English, later British, parliamentary party supporting the established religious and political order until the emergence of the Conservative Party in the 1830s.
   • 2. a colonist who supported the British side during the War of American Independence. US

   adjective

   • 1. relating to the British Conservative Party or its supporters: "the Tory party"

   Word Origin mid 17th century: probably from Irish toraidhe ‘outlaw, highwayman’, from tóir ‘pursue’. The word was used of Irish peasants dispossessed by English settlers and living as robbers, and extended to other marauders especially in the Scottish Highlands. It was then adopted c. 1679 as an abusive nickname for supporters of the Catholic James II.

   Derivatives

   • 1. Toryism noun

   Scrabble Points: 7

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   • R

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