vetoistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

veto +‎ -ist

名詞

vetoist (複数形 vetoists)

1. (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.