单词 | demolater |
释义 | demolatern. rare. A person who displays excessive enthusiasm for democracy or admiration for the opinions of ordinary people. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > democratism > adherent of democratian1651 democratical1651 democratic1659 democrat1788 democratist1790 blackneb1815 demolater1886 demomaniac1886 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > worshipper of demomaniac1886 demolater1987 1886 Sat. Rev. 22 May 704/2 Friendly portrait of a democracy by democrats, by demogogues, by demomaniacs even, and demolaters. 1962 G. Sartori Democratic Theory xii. 266 Even the most fervent demolater maintains that such a regime is not democratic. 1987 G. Sartori Theory Democracy Revisited ii. 25 The demolater does speak of ‘real people’; but he ends, in truth, with making a fetish of an ideal people accurately placed out of sight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1886 |
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