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unreconˈstructed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8; cf. reconstruction 1 b.]
spec. (orig. U.S.) Not reconciled to the outcome of the American Civil War; hence gen. not reconciled or converted to the current political orthodoxy; unreformed; die-hard.
1867Harper's Weekly 9 Nov. 707/2 The Democratic candidates in Maryland are..of the ‘unreconstructed’ kind. 1869Nation 25 March 221/2 Butler's Committee on Reconstruction reported in favor of extending..the time during which an ‘unreconstructed’ Southerner may retain his Government employment. 1877Longfellow in Life (1891) III. 277 A letter from Mr. ―, of Washington, a fierce and ‘unreconstructed’ rebel. a1936Kipling Something of Myself (1937) vii. 195 There came..with her married daughter the widow of a Confederate Cavalry leader; both of them were what you might call ‘unreconstructed’ rebels. 1944Univ. of Chicago Mag. May 6 The young are in increasing numbers, not only in Oklahoma but in much of the vast inland region of our republic, moving to the cities, leaving the unreconstructed small towns to their elders and to decay. 1946J. Flanner in New Yorker 9 Mar. 80/1 Nuremberg defense counsel have just offered..an absolutely first-rate demonstration of the still unreconstructed prewar German mind. 1949B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore i. i. 4 As the type and symbol of the ‘unreconstructed Southerner’, Donald Davidson selects ‘Cousin Roderick’, an idealized Middle Georgia country gentleman, who combines the ‘bearing of an English squire’ with the ‘frontier heartiness’ of A. B. Longstreet's Georgia Scenes. What principally distinguishes Cousin Roderick from ‘Brother Jonathan’ (the Vermont ‘unreconstructed Yankee’ who resembles the Georgian in so many ways)..is the fact that he does not work with his own hands. 1962A. Sampson Anat. of Britain xxx. 480 He and his board have reacted..to revelations about their monopoly, with the old-fashioned sang-froid of unreconstructed businessmen. 1968Economist 6 Jan. 34/3 The trial had an even greater impact because of the blunt rebukes hurled at the defendants by Judge Harold Cox, once considered one of the more unreconstructed judges in the South. 1972R. Plant in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind II. iv. 91 The major opposition to Roosevelt's New Deal policies in fact came from these unreconstructed laissez-faire liberals who failed to realize that planning was necessary in order to make individual freedom a real possibility for the masses. 1973[see reconstructed ppl. a. b]. 1979Guardian 2 Oct. 10/2 A further entrenchment of unreconstructed union power. 1981‘A. Cross’ Death in Faculty i. 12 The place is pretty much unreconstructed..an ancient bathroom complete with mahogany bathtub. |