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groupuscule, n. Pol.
(ˈgruːpəˌskjuːl, ‖ grupyskyl)
Also (in early use) anglicized as groupuscle |-pʌs(ə)l|.
[a. F. groupuscule, dim. of groupe group n.: see -cule.
The French word is attested from 1936, but became popular during the student unrest of 1968.]
A small political group, esp. a radical or extremist splinter group. Freq. contemptuous.
1968Guardian 23 Aug. 7/3 There is an element in French youth which considers that wherever the remnants of the Groupuscles of May happen to be spending their holidays must be a kind of china shop that needs bulling. 1968Listener 26 Sept. 410/1 It all began with the student groupuscules, a shifting, proliferating fistful of rival revolutionaries, loosely united by their far-Left challenge to the consumer society and their campaign..against the Vietnam war. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Oct. 1280/5 The causes inspiring the anti-fair..—the trestlefuls of blunt and functional literature erected by leftwing groupuscules..—seemed to be two, both of them wholesome and humanitarian. 1977New Yorker 12 Sept. 151/1 Frank establishes beyond doubt that Dostoevski was a member of Speshnev's secret groupuscule. 1982Times 10 Nov. 12/6 The new Salisbury Review, the organ of a Tory groupuscule which believes ‘there is more to conservatism than economic policy’. 1991Internat. Affairs LXVII. 388 A much more interesting and important question than which little-read journal published what and when, or how groupuscules were organized. |