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/plˈɛbəsˌaɪt/ /plˈibɪsˌaɪt/ Listen

Plebiscite

noun

(Written also plebiscit)

A vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance.

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"Plebiscite" Quotes from Famous Books

... but they still survive to discharge a number of curious minor functions, and not the least among these is this sort of aesthetic ostracism. Every year every minor local governing body pulls down a building selected by local plebiscite, and the greater Government pays a slight compensation to the owner, and resumes possession of the land it occupies. The idea would strike us at first as simply whimsical, but in practice it appears to work as a cheap ...

— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

... the town of Edinburgh to choose its religion by "voting of men." On July 29, when Huntly, Chatelherault, and Erskine, the neutral commander of the Castle, asked for a plebiscite, as provided in the treaty of July 24, the Truth, said the brethren, was not a matter of human votes, and, as the brethren held St. Giles's Church before the treaty, under Article 7 they could not be dispossessed. {142a} The Regent, to avoid shadow ...

— John Knox and the Reformation • Andrew Lang

Words linked to "Plebiscite" : vote