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Chartist (plural Chartists)

  1. (historical) A supporter of the Chartism reform movement in the United Kingdom.
    • 1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out[1]:
      There to be a real blessing, raising new corn for us, purchasing new webs and hatchets from us; leaving us at least in peace; instead of staying here to be a physical-force Chartist, unblessed and no blessing!

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Chartist (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Relating to Chartism.
    • 1888, William Morris, Signs of Change [] [2], London: Reeves and Turner, page 102:
      As to the Chartist agitation, there is this to be said of it, that it was thoroughly a working-class movement, and it was caused by the simplest and most powerful of all causes—hunger.

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