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Definition of Luddite
1. Noun. Any opponent of technological progress.
2. Noun. One of the 19th century English workmen who destroyed laborsaving machinery that they thought would cause unemployment.
Definition of Luddite
1. n. One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
Definition of Luddite
1. Noun. Any of a group of early 19th century English textile workers who destroyed machinery because it would harm their livelihood. ¹
2. Noun. (context: by extension pejorative) Someone who opposes technological change. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Luddite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"The Luddite riots have been described as the most formidable of all ...
Whatever their origin, the Luddite riots were numerous and formidable in the big ..."
2. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England by John Campbell Campbell, Joseph Arnould (1881)
"In the summer assizes of 1816 he was extensively retained for the defence of
various Luddite prisoners, charged with machine-breaking and rioting. ..."
3. The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists & Plugdrawers by Frank Peel (1888)
"THE APPREHENSION OF BAINES, THE HALIFAX Luddite LEADER. But far too numerous is
the herd of such Who think too little and who talk too much. ..."
4. A Life of Lord Lyndhurst from Letters and Papers in Possession of His Family by Sir Theodore Martin (1883)
"... misrepresented—Persevering industry —First great success in defending Luddite
Rioter at Nottingham— Becomes Serjeant-at-Law—Death of his father. ..."
5. England in Transition, 1789-1832: A Study of Movements by William Law Mathieson (1920)
"... after the bad harvest of 1811, in an epidemic of frame-breaking which was
known, for no very intelligible reason,8 as "the Luddite riots. ..."
6. The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century: Its Progress and Expansion at by Edgar Sanderson (1897)
"Agitation for reform stimulated by high prices of food and depression of trade—The
Luddite riots—Rise of Radicalism—Cobbett, Burdett, and Hunt—"The Field of ..."
7. Memorials of Manchester Streets by Richard Wright Procter (1874)
"... similar scenes in the model privation year 1826, and again in 1829; so we are
enabled to realise the Luddite tumults with sufficient vividness. ..."
8. History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854. With an by Harriet Martineau, George Lillie Craik, Charles Knight (1865)
"There was a law against frame-breaking, which rendered the offenders liable to
transportation for fourteen years ; Luddite but it contemplated only the ..."
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