Both Uses of
veto
in
Middlemarch
- That I have some claim to the exercise of a veto here, would not, I believe, be denied by any reasonable person cognizant of the relations between us: relations which, though thrown into the past by your recent procedure, are not thereby annulled in their character of determining antecedents.†
Chpt 4
- Or a benefactor's veto might impose such a negation on a man's life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
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(veto) to exercise the right to override another's decision by preventing their intended action