TORY

• a dispossessed Irishman subsisting as an outlaw chiefly in the 17th century
• member or supporter of a major British political group of the 18th and early 19th centuries favoring at first the Stuarts and later royal authority and the established church and seeking to preserve the traditional political structure and defeat parliamentary reform compare whig
• American upholding the cause of the British Crown against the supporters of colonial independence during the American Revolution loyalist
• extreme conservative especially in political and economic principles
• a political conservative [n TORIES]
• member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada or its British predecessor from the late 17th century to about 1832
• conservative
• supporter of the British in the American Revolution
• male or female given name
• of or belonging to the Tories

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