cornlaw

English

Noun

cornlaw (plural cornlaws)

  1. Rare spelling of corn law.
    • 1849 October 17, Ebenezer Elliott, “Preface”, in More Verse and Prose by the Cornlaw Rhymer, volume 1, published 1850, page v:
      When I became a Freetrade agitator in 1824, I could not find one respectable shopkeeper who thought the cornlaws an evil.
    • 1963, Charles Tennyson, Tennyson and His Times‎, page 6:
      Another poem of this time, The Golden Year published in 1846, gives in antithetical form the hopeful liberal point of view founded on […] repeal of the cornlaws and freeing of commerce and Press […]
    • 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 223:
      He started away from the protection of agriculture on which Tory landowners depended for prosperity. They wanted the cornlaws and he moved step by step towards repeal.
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