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anti-ˈdemocrat
[anti-1 5.]
One who is opposed to democracy or to the principles of the Democratic party in the United States (see democratic a. 2).
1802(title) The Republican; or, Anti-Democrat [cited in D.A.]. 1855Bristed in Fraser's Mag. LII. 521 Many of the Southern anti-Democrats..carried them [sc. some doctrines] to greater length than the Democrats themselves. a1937J. L. Stocks Reason & Intuition (1939) vii. 112 The imposture of collective wisdom, of which anti-democrats talk. 1945Popper Open Society i. x. 161 He [sc. Thucydides] probably did not support the treacherous acts of the extreme anti-democrats.
So ˌanti-demoˈcratic a., -deˈmocracy.
1837U.S. Mag. & Democr. Rev. Oct. 10 That extensive anti-democratic corruption of sentiment in some portions of our people. 1842J. S. Mill Let. 6 Apr. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 514 Some of the opinions are likely to be considered ultra-liberal, although..rather anti-democratic. 1881Mahaffy Old Grk. Educ. xi. 140 The antidemocratic tone of the schools. 1909G. K. Chesterton Orthodoxy ix. 281 These supernatural things are never denied except on the basis of anti-democracy or of materialist dogmatism. 1939War Illustr. 9 Dec. 416/3 Fascism remains anti-Communist, but it also remains obstinately anti-democratic. |