Definition of groupuscule in English:
groupuscule
noun ˈɡruːpəˌskjuːlɡro͞oˈpəsˌkyo͞ol
A political or religious splinter group.
Example sentencesExamples
- It was rather a grouping in the sense of Charles Fourier's socialist cells or groupuscules, based, as Breton insisted, on the idea that all passions are good.
- He will be comfortable with his citation on the blogrolls of various right-wing groupuscules and assorted reactionary ranters.
- His success in the first round of the presidential election ‘aroused among his supporters and in the groupuscules a very great hope.’
- The 1970s seemed to be the age of the groupuscules, the tiny, fissiparous radical activist groups which spread across Western Europe.
- One of the most successful of these groupuscules was Italy's Red Brigades, formed a year after Italy's ‘hot autumn’ strikes of 1969 and consisting of radical students and workers.
Origin
1960s: from French, diminutive of groupe 'group'.