cornlaw
English
editNoun
editcornlaw (plural cornlaws)
- Rare spelling of corn law.
- 1849 October 17, Ebenezer Elliott, “Preface”, in More Verse and Prose by the Cornlaw Rhymer, volume 1, published 1850, page v:
- When I became a Freetrade agitator in 1824, I could not find one respectable shopkeeper who thought the cornlaws an evil.
- 1963, Charles Tennyson, Tennyson and His Times[1], page 6:
- Another poem of this time, The Golden Year published in 1846, gives in antithetical form the hopeful liberal point of view founded on […] repeal of the cornlaws and freeing of commerce and Press […]
- 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 223:
- He started away from the protection of agriculture on which Tory landowners depended for prosperity. They wanted the cornlaws and he moved step by step towards repeal.