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![Etymology
Further information: Rapparee
The word Tory derives from the Irish tórai, meaning "outlaw" (literally "pursuer"). It entered the English language in the 17th century, when it was used to describe Irish outlaws who survived by committing acts of robbery and plunder against English settlers. Later, it came to denote any Catholic or Royalist who had taken up arms against the English government. (5)
The word entered English politics during the Exclusion Crisis, emerging as a pejorative term for supporters of the Duke of York and his hereditary right to inherit the throne despite his Catholic religion. (6) [7) [8) According to Daniel Defoe, it was popularised by Titus Oates, who once received a warning that a group of Irish tories intended to assassinate him. Following this incident, Oates "could never hear any man [...] talk against the plot, or against the witnesses, but he thought he was one of these tories, and call'd almost every man a tory that oppos'd him in discourse; till at last the word tory became popular, and it stuck so close to the [Yorkist] party in all their bloody proceedings that they had no way to get it off".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rstmdnlpmwmvuc4tbfbegmc7/bafkreibdygbp3jsansgrouokaaohueyrroewabvyv4g3nxosf4ii63ck6e)
