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单词 groupuscule
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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'.

 
 

Definition of groupuscule in US English:

groupuscule

nounɡro͞oˈpəsˌkyo͞ol
  • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.

Origin

1960s: from French, diminutive of groupe ‘group’.

 
 
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