释义 |
revoˈlutionism [f. as prec. + -ism.] Advocacy or spread of revolutionary principles.
1841C. Fox Jrnl. 20 Apr. (1972) 105 He [sc. John Sterling]..thinks ‘The Misanthrope’ his [sc. Molière's] best, and considers that all the din and stir of French Revolutionism is prefigured in it. 1877A. M. Sullivan New Irel. xiv. 164 He had seen the evil work which Revolutionism had wrought elsewhere. 1893Current Hist. II. 374 The daily increasing growth of Revolutionism, Socialism, and Anarchy, is producing one result in Europe. 1959C. Ogburn Marauders (1960) ii. 48 Equally he liked to inveigh against the English, for whom his animus seemed to compound Midwestern isolationism, an early American revolutionism, and an unexpected outcropping of Scottish nationalism. 1976M. J. Lasky Utopia & Revolution (1977) v. 225 Before the emergence of a clear, simple concept of linear progress, both utopianism and revolutionism took their turns on the wheel of fortune. |