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‖ jusqu'au bout, advb. phr.|ʒysko bu| [Fr.] To the end, to the conclusion, to completion; to the bitter end; spec. in the war of 1914–18, used in the context of carrying on fighting until a conclusive victory has been gained. Hence jusqu'auboutisme, the policy of carrying on to the bitter end; jusqu'auboutist(e (also without apostrophe), an advocate of jusqu'auboutisme.
1917A. Huxley Let. 30 Sept. (1969) 134 Are the French socialists going to make much fuss at Bordeaux? I think and hope we are all Jusquauboutistes here. 1918G. B. Shaw What I really wrote about War (1931) 280 In Constantinople it will be a matter of fighting jusqu'au bout. Ibid. 282, I am a Jusqu'auboutist. I do not want this war to be compromised as long as it will be possible for any of the belligerent Powers afterwards to pretend that if it had only gone on for another year it would have won. 1933A. Huxley Let. 13 Aug. (1969) 372, I have never more passionately felt the need of using reason jusqu'au bout. 1968Listener 4 July 12/1 The rhetoric of the klieg-lit European student leaders spouting mocking jusqu'auboutisme like post-Marxist Beatles. |