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Chartist   /tʃˈɑrtɪst/   Listen
Chartist

noun
1.
A 19th century English reformer who advocated better social and economic conditions for working people.
2.
A stock market analyst who tries to predict market trends from graphs of recent prices of securities.  Synonym: technical analyst.





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"Chartist" Quotes from Famous Books



... on which he sat, and place him on an ordinary table in a smoke-room for some slight wager of a pint of beer or so. This was one of the ameliorations of the rigours of a committee meeting, of which my father was chairman, called to decide on the form of the public reception of a returning Chartist, who had spent six months in Stafford Gaol for the expression of such extreme opinions as are now daily enunciated in the ...
— Recollections • David Christie Murray
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... a descent to the centre of the earth, or on the model of a general Utopia—whether on a telegraphic correspondence with the new planet, by a galvanised wire two thousand eight hundred and fifty millions of miles long, or on a Chartist government—we have not the slightest reason to doubt, that our generation will be regarded as having lived in the most brilliant time of ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various
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... Secularism, like all other forms of mental energy, had lately been active in Manchester; there had been public discussions between Mr. Holyoake and Mr. Bradlaugh as to whether Secularism were necessarily atheistic or no. Some of the old newspapers of the movement, dating from Chartist days, had recently taken a new lease of life; and combined with the protest against theology was a good deal of co-operative and republican enthusiasm. Lomax, who had been a Secularist and an Owenite ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
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... deliverer, under God, of a whole town, and probably through that of the whole kingdom, from a scene of revolutionary carnage. He commanded the gallant little body of troops at Newport who, on the 4th of November, 1839, quelled the Chartist insurrection, and broke the formidable power that menaced a general outbreak. I cannot pass over this event, it was ...
— Personal Recollections • Charlotte Elizabeth
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Words linked to "Chartist" :   reformist, reformer, crusader, market analyst, Chartism, chart, meliorist, technical analyst, social reformer


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