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ˈfounding, ppl. a.
[f. found v.2]
Associated with or marking the establishment of (something specified); that originated or created. Spec. founding father (freq. with capital initials), an American statesman of the Revolutionary period, esp. a member of the American Constitutional Convention of 1787; also transf.; founding member = founder member.
1903Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 10/1 Founding members are now being elected for the Ladies' Military and Naval Club. 1914K. B. Umbriet (title) Founding fathers: men who shaped our tradition. 1953Manch. Guardian Weekly 8 Oct. 5/1 The Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference was formed. Many of the ‘founding-fathers’ of the conference were Quakers. 1957C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon viii. 21 The invitation to the founding Congress of the Comintern. 1958C. Baker Friend in Power i. 14 The Founding Fathers, eternized in dark oils, looked benignly down from the white and gold walls. 1959Ann. Reg. 1958 180 Article 4 provided that the control commission should consist of seven members, one representative each from the three founding nuclear Powers [etc.]. 1959Listener 5 Mar. 419/2 It is possible, too, that some of the founding families [in Tarentum] may have enjoyed political privileges. 1961Ibid. 7 Sept. 336/1 Sociologists tend to accept the distinction stressed by their Founding Father, Max Weber, between fact and value. 1966Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. v/1 One third of Canadians are not of the founding races. 1967Observer (Colour Suppl.) 15 Oct. 44/2 It was with abuses of this sort..in mind that Lord Keynes and the founding fathers of the new regime at Covent Garden set to work in 1945. 1969P. A. Robinson Sexual Radicals (1970) ii. 84 Roheim..rejected the naïve attempts of the founding fathers to explain culture in terms of a simple-minded rationalistic psychology. |