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  • noun Plural form of Cameronian.

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Examples

  • Cameron and the Society People, afterward known as the Cameronians, have been severely criticised for their exclusiveness.

    Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters

  • Julius told me that no man in the 'Cameronians' had a worse name than Harry Sandal. "

    The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

  • Here too, of course, and as in the Lords, the Cameronians may say that unless they have the right people, they won't be able to make good on their promises.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Here too, of course, and as in the Lords, the Cameronians may say that unless they have the right people, they won't be able to make good on their promises.

    David Cameron, his Goats & his Pocket Boroughs 2009

  • The citation on the medal read, “For rescuing Corporal Muldoon from drowning under heavy shell fire of the assault at Walcheren November 1944, while serving with the 6th Cameronians.”

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs Jack Canfield 2008

  • The training school requirements were a breeze for Khan, and on graduation he was assigned to the 6th Battalion Cameronians, based in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs Jack Canfield 2008

  • The citation on the medal read, “For rescuing Corporal Muldoon from drowning under heavy shell fire of the assault at Walcheren November 1944, while serving with the 6th Cameronians.”

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs Jack Canfield 2008

  • The training school requirements were a breeze for Khan, and on graduation he was assigned to the 6th Battalion Cameronians, based in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs Jack Canfield 2008

  • The gloomy, dangerous, and constant wanderings of the persecuted sect of Cameronians, naturally led to their entertaining with peculiar credulity the belief that they were sometimes persecuted, not only by the wrath of men, but by the secret wiles and open terrors of Satan.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • Cameronians made a distinction between the two sexes dancing separately, and allowed of it as a healthy and not unlawful exercise; but when men and women mingled in sport, it was then called promiscuous dancing, and considered as a scandalous enormity.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

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