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Definition of Electioneerers
1. electioneerer [n] - See also: electioneerer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Electioneerers
Literary usage of Electioneerers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860)
"These electioneerers are, as we all know, about the greatest scourges and nuisances
that belong to free institutions; they are usually men to whom regular ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"Presidents, ministers, chiefs of parties, and their followers are all electioneerers,"
&c. I wish to inquire whether this is a vulgarism,— why the word ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"It is, moreover, by no means certain that the exclusion of women from the franchise
secures their immunity from the seductions of electioneerers. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1872)
"... one or other of two very evil things—you must organize and manipulate them by
a band of electioneerers, or you must excite them by a sensational policy. ..."
5. Indiana Magazine of History by Indiana Historical Society, Indiana State Library (1905)
"He was fascinating in his manners, had a talismanic shake of the hand and was
personally one of the best electioneerers in the county. ..."
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