Antedating of "Leftist"

[Dan Goncharoff]

In Timely Topics, a newsletter, dated Feb 24, 1899, there is an article
with the follow sentence:

"He was one of the 385 deputies of all the united leftist groups who after
the act of May 16, 1877, refused to join in a vote of confidence in the
DeBroglia cabinet."

GB:
http://books.google.com/books?id=kVbiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA393&dq=leftist+center&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dG8UUaaTNoHj0gGKjYHwBA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA


DanG


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

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> leftist (OED 1924)
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> 1901 _Political Science Quarterly_ 16: 386 (JSTOR)  ITALY. ... The new
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> net, as formed by Signor Zanardelli, through a combination with Signor
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> itti, was predominantly Leftist, although a few members of the Centre and
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> ight held office, and among them two survivors of the former Ministry.
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> Fred Shapiro
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