单词 | disunionist |
释义 | disunionistn.adj. One who advocates or works for disunion: spec. (a) (in U.S. politics) one of those who, before or during the civil war of 1861–65, advocated a dissolution of the Union; (b) (n English politics, applied controversially to an advocate of the repeal or modification of the Act of Union with Ireland. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > disunionism > adherent of separationist1831 disunionist1832 separatist1871 partitionist1889 1832 Deb. Congr. 15 June 3572 Those who denounce them..are branded as disunionists and nullifiers. 1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing North). 1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 72 47 The population is divided really into Unionists, or Compromise-men, and Disunionists, or Abolitionists. 1854 L. Oliphant Let. in Life (1891) I. iv. 124 There are the Whigs and Democrats, and Filibusters..Disunionists and Federalists. 1861 J. R. Lowell E Pluribus Unum in Prose Wks. (1890) V. 52 It is time that we turned up our definitions in some more trustworthy dictionary than that of..disunionists and their..accomplices. 1889 Catholic Household 5 Oct. 10/2 The Disunionists..seem to revel in fiery invective of a zoological character. Compounds attributive or as adj. ΚΠ 1884 Goldw. Smith in Contemp. Rev. Sept. 317 The disunionist movement in Ireland. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lvi. 377 The disunionist spirit of the South which led to the war. Derivatives disˈunionism n. the doctrine of disunionists. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > disunionism disunionism1832 separatism1866 1832 Boston Morning Post 24 Aug. 2/1 Disunionism. 1894 A. C. Swinburne Stud. Prose & Poetry 102 Disunionism, dissolutionism, or communalism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.adj.1832 |
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