consteetuency

Scots

Noun

consteetuency (plural consteetuencies)

  1. constituency
    • 1864, Catherine Helen Spence, Mr Hogarth's Will:
      "Na, na, Maister Hogarth, when ye gied thae allotments to your hinds, ye showed that ye kent what they were fit for, an' ye MAUN see that the bigger a consteetuency is, the purer it is like to be."
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