Ormondian
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A supporter of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond.
"I do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high-church, high-flyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tip-top-gallon-men, jaocobites, tantivys, anti-hanoverians, friends to popery and the pretender and to arbitrary power, disobligers of England, breakers of DEPENDENCY, inflamers of quarrels between the two nations, public incendiaries, enemies to the king and kingdoms, haters of TRUE protestants, laurel-men, annists, complainers of the nation's poverty, ormondians, iconoclasts, anti-glorious-memorists, anti-revolutioners, white-rosalists, tenth-a-junians, and the like; when, by a fair state of the account, the balance, I conceive, seems to lie on the other side."
- 1 In support of or pertaining to Thomas Butler, especially as regards the faction that supported him in the Desmond Rebellions.
"The Ormondian golden age!"
Example
More examples"So wounded Desmond borne from field Captive upon Ormondian shield, Hearing– " Where now is Desmond ? " – shrilled, " Where but in proper place of fear, Still on the necks of Butlers, here.”"
Etymology
From Ormond + -ian, from Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond.
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