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▪ I. ‖ politique|pɔlitik|
[F., prop. adj. ‘political’: see politic.]
1. One of an opportunist and moderate party, which arose in France c 1573, during the Huguenot wars, and regarded peace and political reform as more urgent than the decision by arms of the religious quarrel; also, a sympathizer with this party elsewhere, and, opprobriously, an indifferentist, a temporizer: = politic B. 1 b.
1609Bible (Douay) Exod. x. Comm., Because Gods servants may not temporize in religion, politiques unjustly charge them to have bad intentions. 1644Bulwer Chirol. A ij b, Interpreters henceforth grow out of date, While Politiques usurpe the Sultans state. 1879Saintsbury in Encycl. Brit. IX. 564/1 The middle party, the Politiques of Europe,—the English, that is, and the Germans,—sent help to Henry. 1888Q. Review CLXVII. 21 At Court three great parties were contending for power in the King's name—the Guises, the Reformers, and the Politiques. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 11 July 390/4 It certainly attracted a number of outstanding political leaders to it. Dr. Zeldin introduces us to many of these latter-day politiques. 1959Encounter July 45/2 Some presenting him [sc. Odysseus] as an enlightened statesman, others as a machiavellian politique. 1972K. B. McFarlane Lancastrian Kings & Lollard Knights i. ii. 24, I would maintain that in politics Henry [IV] was not a man of constitutional principle at all but an opportunist and a politique.
2. A political concept or doctrine; an expression of political ideas.
1958A. Dru tr. Péguy's Temporal & Eternal 27 A country, a régime does not need you, it does not need mystics, a mystique, or its mystique... It needs a sound politique, which means a good government policy. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 27 June 366/2 Péguy used the witness of the few independent supporters of Dreyfus to illustrate that radical distinction between mystique and politique which is the essential clue to all his thought... For him the Revolution and the Christian religion were in origin and in essence both mystiques that were profoundly true... But they had become politiques: ‘It is one and the same movement which makes people no longer believe in the Republic and no longer believe in God.’ Ibid. 366/3 The withering criticism of the clergy is always in terms of their compromising with the mystique which alone makes Christianity valid: the Church has devoted its energies instead to propagating a politique. 1959Listener 4 June 999/1 His analysis of Communist politique had a tension which lent itself to radio dramatization. 1977A. Ecclestone Staircase for Silence v. 88 Politique..set in as a process of dislocation,..a choosing to go it alone. It became an end in itself, ever seeking an aggrandisement of its own power, suspicious of and ready to suppress whatever challenged its own authority.
▪ II. politique, -ly
obs. forms of politic, -ly. |