procourt

comparative more procourt · superlative most procourt

1. Supporting a legal court.

   The procourt faction (in the Senate) was also coalescing.

   Quoted in 1963, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates... (page 3222)

   Antonyms: anticourt

2. Supporting a royal court.

   Later, however, Edo received a request from Kyoto that Yoshiatsu and members of the procourt faction at Mito accompany the shogun, and in the outcome the bakufu yielded to the request.

   1980, Conrad D. Totman, The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu: 1862-1868, page 51

   Antonyms: anticourt