vetoist
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[edit]vetoist (plural vetoists)
- (usually historical) One who uses, or supports the use of, the veto, especially in relation to the appointment of Catholic bishops in Ireland in the 19th century.
- 1816, Catholicon; or, The Christian philosopher[1], page 195:
- I afterwards proceeded to shew, that both vetoists and anti-vetoists, by uniting to press, as a sine qua non, the necessity of emancipation on the mind of his Holiness, were forcing him to a decision, which at the present moment, for the reasons I then assigned, was pregnant with danger.
- 1818, William Eusebius Andrews, The Orthodox journal and Catholic monthly intelligencer[2], volume 6:
- He acknowledged that he had concurred in sacrificing the delegate of the catholics of Ireland out of an absurd complacency to incurable vetoists and corrupt retainers of an hostile administration; but has he, by his subsequent behaviour, endeavoured to retrieve that loss of public principle he then so lamentably deplored?
- 2002, Desmond Keenan, The Grail of Catholic Emancipation 1793 to 1829[3], page 142:
- As the only way to consult the Catholics throughout IReland was through a convention of delegates, and this was prohibited by the Convention Act (1793), the seeds for future disputes were laid. Though the two parties eventually became known as 'vetoists' and 'anti-vetoists, the split had occurred long before the word 'veto' was introduced into the public debate.