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- noun Plural form of
repealer .
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Examples
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In response, Cornyn released a statement attempting to placate the full repealers:
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Now back to our regularly scheduled taunting of repealers …
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On one side we have the repealers who are complaining just because someone is telling them to.
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But I suspect that the usual forces that keep sensible things from being done on Capital Hill, namely the absolutists on one side and the repealers on the other, will keep the law from being modified.
The Volokh Conspiracy » No More Rhinestone Cowboys and Cowgirls? 2009
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But I suspect that the usual forces that keep sensible things from being done on Capital Hill, namely the absolutists on one side and the repealers on the other, will keep the law from being modified.
The Volokh Conspiracy » No More Rhinestone Cowboys and Cowgirls? 2009
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Satyrs: there they were, the merry Pagans: drinking and dancing, dicing and sporting; laughing out jests that never should be spoken; whispering rendezvous to be written in midnight calendars; jeering at honest people who passed under their palace windows — jolly rebels and repealers of the law.
The Newcomes 2006
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Read any of the more open and outspoken repealers.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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At the beginning of the year 1845, owing to the success of Peel's financial measures, the nation was in a state of great prosperity and contentment; and there seemed little hope that the repealers would be able to carry their scheme for some time to come.
Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 Anonymous
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Then, as the distress must chiefly occur amongst the poor Catholics, who were repealers, it was, they assumed, the business of repealers and agitators to look to them and relieve them.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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I have led you thus far in safety; I have swelled the multitude of repealers until they are identified with the entire population, or nearly the entire population, of the land, for seven-eighths of the Irish people are now enrolling themselves repealers.
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