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  • noun A supporter of Oliver Cromwell.

Etymologies

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Oliver +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • A brisk piece called "" Papa What You Are Trying to Do to Me I've Been Doing It for Years '' sounded like rambunctious proto-swing; the slower "" When You Leave Me Alone to Pine '' maintained the typical Oliverian balance between bluesiness and stateliness.

    Louis Will Never Go Away Again 2008

  • Upon the first of these occasions he had set his case before them in a few plain, straightforward words, and they believed him as Godwyn had done, and he became in their eyes, not a convict, but, as he in truth was, an Oliverian like themselves, and a sufferer for the same cause.

    Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

  • Upon an appointed day the servants, Oliverian, indented and convict, upon all the plantations seated upon the bay, the creeks, the three rivers, and over in Accomac, will rise.

    Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

  • The Oliverian and schismatic servants spit at him.

    Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

  • Affairs were in such train that little remained to be done, but to set the day for the rising, and to send notice by many devious and underground ways to the Oliverian captains scattered throughout the Colony.

    Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

  • I know the people and am popular with them, with Royalist and Churchman as well as with Nonconformist and Oliverian.

    Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

  • "I'm not Oliverian," cried Peggy, with burning cheeks.

    The Rough Road William John Locke 1896

  • Oliverian, President of Cromwell's Council (1654), and one of his Lords

    The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

  • He was the second son of Henry Laurence, of St. Ives, Hunts, member for Westmoreland in the Long Parliament, known in 1647 as a thoughtful man, and author of “A Treatise of our Communion and War with Angels,” and afterwards a staunch Oliverian, President of Cromwell's Council (1654), and one of his Lords (1657).

    The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

  • With whatever reservations, Milton was an Oliverian.

    Milton Mark Pattison 1848

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