Thermidoriann.adj.
/θəːmɪˈdɔːrɪən/ A. n.
a. French History. One of those who took part in the overthrow of Robespierre on the 9th Thermidor (27 July) 1794.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary > participant in specific revolution
regicide1648
revolutioner1690
sansculotte1790
federate1793
regicide1793
terrorist1794
Thermidorian1801
tricoteuse1828
filibuster1854
nihilist1868
peshmerga1963
1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 276 Un thermidorien, spéculateur révolutionnaire—A thermidorian, and speculator in revolutions.
1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon II. ix. 356 The Thermidoriens, as the actors in Robespierre's downfall termed themselves.
1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon III. ii. 58 The Thermidorians..who had killed Robespierre, and now reigned in his stead.
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1229/2 It was the month signalized by the overthrow of Robespierre and the Reign of Terror; thence commonly called the Revolution of Thermidor, and those who boasted of having participated in it called themselves Thermidorians.
b. A moderate opponent of a revolutionary movement; a counter-revolutionary.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary > counter-revolutionary
counter-revolutionist1791
counter-revolutionary1917
Thermidorian1981
1981 Encounter Dec. 34/1 The Thermidorians..are themselves not easy to define..and the Thermidorian régime..is so fragmented as to defy any simple analysis.
B. adj.
a. Of, pertaining, or appropriate to the month Thermidor.
b. Of or pertaining to the Thermidorians: see A.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > hot weather > [adjective]
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hotOE
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tropical1788
subtropical1829
shirtsleeve1877
Thermidorian1891
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxiv. 34 July passed over their heads, and the Thermidorean weather which came in its wake seemed [etc.].
1895 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 391 The Thermidorian leader [Barras].
c. Of, pertaining to, or designating a moderate reaction following a revolution.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [adjective] > counter-revolutionary
counter-revolutionary1799
Thermidorian1938
1938 C. Brinton Anat. of Revol. viii. 244 The ensuing slow and uneven return to quieter, less heroic times has long been known to French historians as the Thermidorean reaction.
1974 tr. W. F. Wertheim Evol. & Revol. 333 It is against the background of these Thermidorian tendencies in the Soviet Union that we have to view the so-called ‘Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’ in China.
1978 Pacific Affairs 51 474 For them the Thermidorian effects of the bureaucratic restoration were much mitigated by the emergence at the helm of the enlightened Chou En-lai.
1981 [see sense A. b]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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