annexionistn.adj.

1844 Democratic Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) 20 May [With reference to the proposed annexation of Texas by the United States] The letter has gone forth.., and the southern annexionists must swallow it or bolt.

1863 R. Mundy H.M.S. ‘Hannibal’ at Palermo & Naples xv. 175 Thus the annexionists have triumphed over the party desirous of a separate kingdom.

1911 Daily Intelligencer (Bellville, Ontario) 28 Mar. That he is an annexionist he denies, but he admits that he is a secessionist.

1940 E. H. Gankin & H. H. Fisher Bolsheviks & World War v. 404 In reality the annexionists are those French socialists who defend the war because of Alsace and Lorraine.

2013 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 15 Nov. 10 There are two-staters and one-staters; annexionists and proponents of a ‘state of all its citizens’.

1853 Lawson's Merchant's Mag. Apr. 266 Mr. Pierce avows himself an annexionist of a direct and emphatic stamp, in practice alike as in principle; and he makes the acquisition of new territory by the Union..a primary principle in his policy.

1875 C. Sumner Wks. XI. 220 The other annexionist is Great Britain, which from time to time adds another province to her Indian empire.

2004 S. Najovits Egypt, Trunk of Tree II. xiii. 222 Egypt was..an imperialist power in the Levant, [and] the annexionist of the African land of Nubia.

1854 Lancaster Gaz. 20 May 3/6 He has been..one of the most virulent members of the..Greek Annexionist faction.

1866 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Apr. 4/2 The annexionist policy of Prussia.

1922 C. à Court Repington After War i. 1 He does not think that Italy has any annexionist ideas in the Eastern Mediterranean.

1997 S. N. Sen Hist. Freedom Movement India 7 The Governor-Generals who followed were frankly annexionist in their policy.

2000 D. Shand-Tucci Built in Boston (rev. ed.) p. xv Adding to core Boston only suburbs caught in the nineteenth-century annexionist movement.