Decembristn.
/dᵻˈsɛmbrɪst/, U.S. /diˈsɛmbrəst/, /dəˈsɛmbrəst/ Now historical.
A participant in or supporter of the uprising which took place in St Petersburg on 26 December 1825, on the accession of the Emperor Nicholas I. Cf. Dekabrist n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun] > insurgent > partisan in specific insurrection
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Decembrist1851
1851 Times 17 Jan. 6/2 The press which depends on his Lordship..has received orders to declare itself Decembrist.]
1851 Times 16 May 6/2 The wild Decembrists loudly say, it is true that an end must be come to.
1882 H. Lansdell Through Siberia II. 2 Certain of them called ‘Decembrists’, who in December 1825 tried to raise a revolt among the soldiers of Nicolas, and deprive him of his throne.
1938 Philosophy 13 477 Several of the intellectuals..had nourished the spirit of revolution and conspired with the Decemberists.
1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) iii. 61 Her son..minor poet, journalist, and famous Decembrist, spent most of his summers in the region.
2002 Austral. Financial Rev. (Sydney) 15 Nov. (Review section) 4/5 The revolt of the Decembrists in 1825 against Tsar Nicholas I was essentially a forlorn gesture of liberal and cultural principles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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