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tory

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1. tory - Noun

2. tory - Adjective

3. Tory - Proper noun

Meaning

A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.

One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.

Of ro pertaining to the Tories.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it. Margaret Thatcher

Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3. Boris Johnson

Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory. David Lloyd George

Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As I have said, I was born that way; I believe it is congenital. I am unable to change it. That is how I see the world... [The EEC] is the most un-Tory thing that can be conceived. Enoch Powell

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence. Clement Attlee

I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed. Max Beerbohm

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