Crossword-Solution: HUSTINGS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hustings | n. pl. | A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant. |
| Hustings | n. pl. | Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament. |
| Hustings | n. pl. | The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “HUSTINGS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the activities involved in political campaigning | 1 answer |
| Platform formerly used by election candidates to make speeches | 1 answer |
| Election platform | 1 answer |
| ELECTION proceedings | 1 answer |
| COURT platform | 1 answer |
| BRITISH court | 1 answer |
| ENGLISH council (medieval) | 5 answers |
| ENGLISH court (medieval) | 6 answers |
| Voting ___ | 10 answers |
| polls | 10 answers |
| Electioneering. | 11 answers |
| candidature | 13 answers |
| Rostrum | 16 answers |
| Election | 16 answers |
| Dais | 17 answers |
| Platform | 39 answers |
| Vote | 43 answers |
| Electioneer | 52 answers |
| Canvass | 53 answers |
| Elective | 58 answers |
| COURT ___ | 68 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with HUSTINGS (5)
Well enough, but a poor gawkhammer mortal,” the wife replied “Heh-heh-heh!” laughed the married man with a hideous effort of appreciation, for he was as irrepressibly good-humoured under ghastly snubs as a parliamentary candidate on the hustings.
Like Stow, at our hustings, confronting the hisses Of roughs, with his queer Mephistopheles' smile; Like Baker, or Baker's more wonderful MRS., The terror of blacks at the source of the Nile; Like Triton 'mid minnows; like hawk among chickens; Like--anything better than everything else: He stands at the post.
And--the idea of committees, of hustings, of agenda-papers!” “I don’t see why the responsibility of beauty should all be shifted on to the women,” said Ann Veronica, suddenly remembering a part of Miss Miniver’s discourse.
Then took they the bishop, and led him to their hustings, on the eve of the Sunday after Easter, which was the thirteenth before the calends of May; and there they then shamefully killed him.
When he approaches the hustings at the period of a public election, this is his altar, where he sacrifices in the face of men to that deity, which is most worth his adoration of all the powers whose single province is our sublunary state.
Quotes with HUSTINGS (2)
Nor, perhaps, will it fail to be eventually perceived, that behind those forms and usages, as it were, he sometimes masked himself; incidentally making use of them for other and more private ends than they were legitimately intended to subserve. That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible dictatorship. For be a man’s intellectual superiority what it…
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men. If you can do one you can do…