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imperiaˈlistic, a.
[f. prec. + -ic.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of imperialists or imperialism.
1879Baldw. Brown in Daily News 30 Sept. 2/2 That Imperialistic rather than Imperial policy, whose tinsel glitter her keen and thrifty eye would at once have detected and despised. 1893Times 2 Jan. 9/2 He denounced the imperialistic leanings of the richer classes and of the clergy of the Established Church. 1894Dublin Rev. July 110 When, in an imperialistic age brutalism was spreading downwards. 1933N. Waln House of Exile iii. iii. 223 His remarks were a stirring appeal to the citizens of China to unite against the ‘Imperialistic Foreign Devil’. 1958[see colonial a. 1 a]. 1969Listener 24 Apr. 568/3 They show the unwavering will of the people to make up for all the damage done by these imperialistic traitors in the shortest possible time.
Hence imperiaˈlistically adv., in an imperialistic way, after the manner of an imperialist.
1881World 11 May 11/2 The little chapel over which Monsignor Goddard has presided so imperialistically. 1895Johannesburg Standard 3 Aug. 4 The Colonist..[is] Imperialistically loyal as far as is consistent with Colonial Conceit. |