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Junto

Pejorative name (from the Spanish, junta) given to a group of Whig ministers who held power under William III 1696–97 and Queen Anne 1708–10. The group included Lords Somers, Sunderland, Wharton, Ormond, and Earl Halifax, all Whigs who favoured an aggressive foreign policy against the French in support of British commercial interests.



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And from this time began an intrigue between his majesty and a junto of ministers, maliciously bent against me, which broke out in less than two months, and had like to have ended in my utter destruction.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
But its real operation is to embarrass the administration, to destroy the energy of the government, and to substitute the pleasure, caprice, or artifices of an insignificant, turbulent, or corrupt junto, to the regular deliberations and decisions of a respectable majority.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
But in hours of trial the junto of man's nature is dissolved, and anarchy succeeds.
Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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