democratistn.
/dᵻˈmɒkrətɪst/, U.S. /dᵻˈmɑkrədəst/, /dᵻˈmɑkrəˌtɪst/ = democrat n. 1a.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > democratism > adherent of
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1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 83 You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists . View more context for this quotation
1795 Ann. Reg. 1791 (Rivington ed.) i. 213/2 By the arts of the democratists they were plunged into a civil war of the most horrid kind.
1826 Edinb. Rev. Dec. 201 The democratist must own it to be free, compared to absolute monarchy.
1895 F. P. Stearns Sketches from Concord & Appledore 110 He [sc. Emerson] was in theory a pure democratist.
1947 Amer. Hist. Rev. 52 681 In the course of the seven centuries of its history, parliament has been the tool of monarchs, oligarchs, and democratists.
2005 P. J. Buchanan Where Right went Wrong 41 These autocrats proved more reliable friends and allies than democratists like Nehru, Olaf Palme, Willy Brandt, and Pierre Trudeau.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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