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Definition of Candidature
1. Noun. The campaign of a candidate to be elected.
Terms within: Whistle-stop Tour
Generic synonyms: Campaign, Cause, Crusade, Drive, Effort, Movement
Specialized synonyms: Front-porch Campaign, Front-porch Campaigning, Hustings, Whispering Campaign, Stumping
Derivative terms: Electioneer
Definition of Candidature
1. n. Candidacy.
Definition of Candidature
1. Noun. The condition of becoming a candidate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Candidature
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Candidature
Literary usage of Candidature
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, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"The Prussian Minister was well aware that in France nation and Government alike
regarded Prince Leopold's candidature as prejudicial to French interests; ..."
2. Memoirs of Baron Stockmar by Ernst Alfred Christian von Stockmar (1873)
"CHAPTER V. candidature OF PRINCE LEOPOLD FOR THE GREEK THRONE. 1829-1830.
Preliminary circumstances of this candidature — Negotiations with Capodistrias ..."
3. Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties by Moisei Ostrogorski (1902)
"The candidature of Grant for a third term, launched on the eve of the elections of
... This candidature, contrary to the precedent created by Washington, ..."
4. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1875)
"... the Imperial Crown.2 But their hopes were disappointed. There was in truth no
general feeling to which they could appeal. The candidature of Eadwine or ..."
5. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"Even in the instructions to Bibbiena on the 27th of January, bidding him try to
obtain the support of the French court in favour of the candidature of one ..."
6. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1871)
"Now this was not the first time this Prince's name had been heard by French
statesmen in connexion with the candidature. Marshal Prim had stated in the ..."
7. Life, Letters, and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart by Charles Lyell (1881)
"and during the year 1861, under the proposed Reform Bill for a representative in
Parliament for the University of London, the candidature was offered to Sir ..."
8. Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life by George Jacob Holyoake (1906)
"PARLIAMENTARY candidature IN BIRMINGHAM (1868.) MY second candidature was in
Birmingham. It was constantly said that the working class had no reasonable ..."
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