kleindeutschadj.
/ˈklʌɪndɔɪtʃ/ Referring to or favouring a United Germany, excluding Austria. Also as n., a supporter of such a policy. Cf. grossdeutsch adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > German politics > [adjective] > principles or policies
Junkerish1878
Hohenzollernist1919
kleindeutsch1945
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1916 A. W. Ward Germany 1815–90 I. vi. 484 The Austrian members..formed a faction..coalescing.. on the question of the exclusion of Austria..under the attractive name Grossdeutsche, and designating their opponents (who..included E. M. Arndt) as Kleindeutsche.
1945 F. Darmstaedter Germany & Europe iv. 53 In the Frankfurt Assembly the adherents of the ‘kleindeutsche’ solution (exclusion of Austria) gained the upper hand over those of the ‘grossdeutsche’ (inclusion of Austria).
1946 A. J. P. Taylor Course of Ger. Hist. 8 The interplay of Kleindeutsch and Grossdeutsch programmes.
1968 F. Eyck Frankfurt Parl. 1848–9 vii. 255 The exclusion of Austria from Germany (which was to become the programme of the Kleindeutsche who proposed the King of Prussia as hereditary German Emperor).
1968 F. Eyck Frankfurt Parl. 1848–9 viii. 363 The antithesis of Kleindeutsch (Lesser German) and Grossdeutsch (Greater German) is not sufficiently subtle to describe the real difference between the parties.
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