Young Englander
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Young England + -er
Noun[edit]
Young Englander (plural Young Englanders)
- (historical, UK politics) A member of Young England, a group of neofeudalist 19th-century Tories.
- 2015, David Matthews, Medievalism: A Critical History, →ISBN, page 56:
- In a related but more obviously nostalgic way the Young Englanders looked back to an earlier England: Disraeli lamented in his 1845 novel Sybil, or the Two Nations, that “there is no community in England” and proposed the medievalising of the aristocracy as a solution.