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Definition of Supporters
1. supporter [n] - See also: supporter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supporters
Literary usage of Supporters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medicine by Franklin Bache (1819)
"The supporters above enumerated will constitute the subjects of the three following
sections. SECTION I. OF OXYGEN* GAS. ..."
2. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1909)
"EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS RELATIVE TO THE QUESTION OF ABDOMINAL Supporters AFTER
... Abdominal supporters, as I see them, are not doing any good whatsoever. ..."
3. Introduction to the Study of English History by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, James Bass Mullinger (1881)
"Supporters. Old attachment to the monarchy and conservative dislike of change
drew to him many supporters, especially amongst the country gentry. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... supporters. Later in the year the Spaniards restored the Valtellina to the
Grisons, in whose possession it remained until 1797. ..."
5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"century the supporters of popular rights (except the Jesuits who were clear-headed)
do not as a rule claim sovereignty for Parliament. ..."
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