anti-ˈGallicanadj.n.
A. adj.
Opposed to what is French.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > fear or dislike of other nations > [adjective] > specific nations
anti-Gallic1756
anti-Gallican1765
anti-American1773
anti-Britisha1845
Anglophobic1846
Anglophobian1847
Russophobist1867
Russophobic1875
Francophobe1890
Germanophobe1891
Anglophobiac1894
Anglophobe1901
Sinophobic1948
mishellenic1958
1765 T. Smollett Trav. 56 Antigallican spirit enough to produce themselves in their own genuine English dress.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (1817) 101 Far greater earnestness and zeal both anti-jacobin and anti-gallican.
1840 A. Alison Hist. Europe VIII. lxii. 296 The convulsion, as Wellington often observed, was anti-Gallican, not democratic.
B. n.
One opposed to the French.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > fear or dislike of other nations > [noun] > specific nations > persons
anti-Gallican1755
Russophobist1836
Anglophobist1854
Anglophobe1855
Anglophobiac1862
Russophobe1862
miso-Hellene1868
Turcophobist1877
Judaeophobe1881
Gallophobe1883
Germanophobe1883
Francophobe1885
Turcophobe1896
Teutonophobe1897
Scotophobe1901
anti-Britisher1902
Teutophobe1904
Bulgarophobe1917
Sinophobe1919
mishellene1958
Sovietophobe1980
1755 Gentleman's Mag. 25 280 A..badge, given by the society of Antigallicans.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) 2nd Ser. 331 The Anti-Gallicans retained Jacob.
1874 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. X. xvii. 353 Congress was divided between what the French envoy named ‘Gallicans’ and ‘anti-Gallicans’.
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