Boroughmonger
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Boroughmonger is a noun meaning (historical) In the unreformed House of Commons, one who bought or sold the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
Meaning
(historical) In the unreformed House of Commons, one who bought or sold the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
Example Sentences
Whig and radical newspapers pilloried them as allies of boroughmongers, maintainers of graft and corruption and bribery, enemies of liberty and the civil rights of Englishmen.
Word Forms
- boroughmongers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include boroughmongery, burgher, mongery, bookmonger, mongerer, burger.
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