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Pitt

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Pitt 1  (pt), William. First Earl of Chatham. Known as "Pitt the Elder." 1708-1778.
British political leader and orator who directed his country's military effort during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763).
Pitt 2  (pt), William. Second Earl of Chatham. Known as "Pitt the Younger." 1759-1806.
British prime minister (1783-1801 and 1804-1806). He accomplished the Act of Union between Ireland and Britain (1800) but was unsuccessful in his efforts to achieve Catholic emancipation.
Pitt [pɪt]
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1. (Biographies / Pitt, William, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) M, British, POLITICS: statesman) William, known as Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham. 1708-78, British statesman. He was first minister (1756-57; 1757-61; 1766-68) and achieved British victory in the Seven Years' War (1756-63)
2. (Biographies / Pitt, William (1759-1806) M, British, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: prime minister) his son William, known as Pitt the Younger. 1759-1806, British statesman. As prime minister (1783-1801; 1804-06), he carried through important fiscal and tariff reforms. From 1793, his attention was focused on the wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France
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Noun1.PittPitt - a British playwright who created the fictional character Sweeney Todd (1799-1855)
George Dibdin Pitt, George Dibdin-Pitt, George Pitt
2.Pitt - English statesman and son of Pitt the Elder (1759-1806)
Pitt the Younger, Second Earl of Chatham, William Pitt
3.Pitt - English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778)
First Earl of Chatham, Pitt the Elder, William Pitt


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Pitt, as a traitor to the nation and to the rights of man, is sentenced to.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Pitt's celebrated sinking-fund = Sir William Pitt "the younger"(1759-1806), when he became Prime Minister in 1784, sought to raise taxes in order to pay off the British national debt}
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
Nor do I believe that all the imagination, fire, and judgment of Pitt, could have produced those orations that have made the senate of England, in these our times, a rival in eloquence to Greece and Rome, if he had not been so well read in the writings of Demosthenes and Cicero, as to have transferred their whole spirit into his speeches, and, with their spirit, their knowledge too.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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