单词 | jusquauboutiste |
释义 | jusqu'auboutisten.adj. A. n. A person who advocates carrying on a conflict to the bitter end, or until a conclusive victory has been gained or all of one's aims achieved. Cf. jusqu'au bout adv.Originally with reference to the First World War (1914–18). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [noun] > obstinate or stubborn person obstinate1435 mumpsimus1530 obstinant1581 ram-head1605 sitfast1606 stiff-stander1642 obduratea1665 ironface1697 sturdy1704 stiffrump1709 sturdy-boots1762 stickfast1827 impracticable1829 mule1846 bullet-head1848 hardshell1849 die-hard1857 hog on ice1857 last-ditcher1862 thick-and-thinnite1898 jusqu'auboutiste1916 stiff-neck1921 dead-ender1956 toughie1960 1916 New Statesman 26 Aug. 484/2 The party in favour of fighting to a finish—the Jusquauboutistes as they are conveniently called in France—could always count on carrying the day as long as it was possible to hold out a prospect of complete ultimate triumph. 1918 G. B. Shaw in Daily Chron. 12 Jan. 5/3 I am a Jusqu'auboutist. I do not want this war to be compromised as long as it will be possible for any of the belligerent Powers afterwards to pretend that if it had only gone on for another year it would have won. 1918 Press Rev. (U. S. Army Amer. Expeditionary Forces) 21 Oct. 1/1 [He] is just as much of a jusqu'auboutiste as Clemenceau or Lloyd George. 1921 Outlook 6 Apr. 546/1 The people of Cork are bitter-enders, jusquaboutists. 1941 D. Reed Prophet at Home v. 361 I came to be looked on as an irresponsible optimist and jusqu'auboutist. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Sept. 61/1 He resembled his enemies, the Jacobins; like them he was a total believer, a violent hater, a jusqu'au boutiste in all things. B. adj. Characterized by the intent to carry on a conflict to the bitter end. ΚΠ 1918 Dial 11 Apr. 346/1 There can be no doubt that he obtained money from the German Government, but he used about half of it to finance ‘jusqu'auboutiste’ propaganda and put the rest in his own pocket. 1956 A. Werth France 1940–1955 xii. 461 General Revers regarded as disastrous the jusqu' auboutiste war policy of Coste-Floret. 2007 N. Stone World War One (2009) v. 118 It was the Germans who first translated the new jusqu'au boutiste..mood into practice. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1916 |
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