Rousseauiten.adj.
/ˈruːsəʊʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈrusoʊˌaɪt/ A. n.
= Rousseauist n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > naturalism > [noun] > Rousseauism > adherent of
Rousseaurian1775
Rousseauite1828
Rousseauist1848
Rousseauan1903
1828 Jew Exile II. vii. 28 I often turn Rousseau-ite and think I am different in the organic structure to other men.
1848 Mirror Jan. 3 All those who were the champions of equality, of rights for all men, the Rousseauites, are treated as Jacobins.
1887 H. S. Constable On Certain Hindrances to Wisdom in Statesmanship v. 127 This is a favourite question with foolish Radicals and Rousseauites, and they answer it by saying that human nature is good.
1930 H. Read Wordsworth iii. 131 They had taken a ward to educate..but they did not take their duties any more seriously than a pair of Rousseauites should.
1994 Esprit de Corps (Ottawa) Aug. 2/2 While Jesuit-trained Rousseau-ite, Pierre Trudeau was busy concocting the 1982 Canadian constitution, he spared no ink for the freedoms that we all had as beneficiaries of the omnipotent State.
B. adj.
= Rousseauian adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > naturalism > [adjective] > of or relating to Rousseauism
Rousseauish1783
Rousseauvian1806
Rousseauian1850
Rousseauite1859
Rousseauan1862
Rousseauist1873
Rousseauesque1889
Rousseauistic1895
1859 N. Brit. Rev. Nov. 312 A happy sneer at the Rousseauite dreams which still, in the eyes of some persons, floated over the chaos of Jacobin anarchy.
1873 J. Morley Rousseau II. 132 Writing Rousseau-ite essays.
1906 Independent 25 Oct. 994/2 A Rousseauite movement in the direction of a sentimentalized naturalism.
1947 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 41 1112 The Rousseauite distinction between constitution-making and statute-making.
1995 Canad. Hist. Rev. June 297 Resnick sees a perpetually repressed English nation which now has the chance to fulfil a Rousseauite destiny.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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