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Candidature

noun
1.
The campaign of a candidate to be elected.  Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, electioneering, political campaign.





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"Candidature" Quotes from Famous Books



... beneath Reynolds' portrait of her duke, is entertaining to tea two privileged visitors, Fox and his leading supporter, Sam House—"brave, bald-headed Sam" as he was then called. The enthusiastic support which her Grace gave to Fox's candidature gave an opening which was used—often too freely—by the caricaturists. In "Wit's last stake, or the Cobbler's vote," she is seated upon Fox's knee, the while a cobbler puts a stitch into her shoe, so that she may have the excuse ...
— The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature • Selwyn Brinton
... expect, my dear sir? The paper is hostile to you, and as I do not scruple openly to support your candidature they make the magistrate pay for ...
— Woman on Her Own, False Gods & The Red Robe - Three Plays By Brieux • Eugene Brieux


Words linked to "Candidature" :   front-porch campaigning, crusade, cause, campaign, whistle-stop tour, drive, hustings, whispering campaign, candidacy, stumping, effort, movement, front-porch campaign


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