neoconservativen.adj.

1883 H. Dunckley in Contemp. Rev. 43 151 That is what the ‘Neo-conservatives’ propose to do with their recent discovery.

1955 New Republic 16 May 29 Reinhold Niebuhr..is to be counted among the ‘neo-conservatives’ of our time, who own kinship with Edmund Burke.

1964 K. Winetrout in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 151 They can turn to Russell Kirk and his fellow neo-conservatives.

1977 Polit. Sci. Q. 92 607 As neoconservatives see it, American society in the 1970s is suffering from strains caused in the 1960s.

1992 Spy (N.Y.) Oct. 15/1 While the The Village Voice doggedly tries to tar me as a neoconservative,..Spy intuited that..I support Bill Clinton.

1883 H. Dunckley in Contemp. Rev. 43 153 The Neo-conservative programme should tell us what is meant by the liberties of the people.

1899 Daily News 2 May 6/6 ‘Posterity has done nothing for us. Why should we do anything for posterity?’ Such is the simple creed of neo-Conservative finance.

1938 Polit. Sci. Q. 53 402 In the works of the neo-conservative Frantz..middle-class democratic and conservative-authoritarian ideas interpenetrate completely.

1956 Jrnl. Politics 18 38 The neo-conservative movement itself might have been the result of the impact of skepticism upon the American avantgarde.

1971 Time 23 Aug. 31 Judaism and Christianity have always placed primacy in man. Now this primacy is being attacked by what I call the neoconservative ecological approach to life.

2000 New Republic 21 Aug. 36/2 Trendy boutiques and lame attempts at politically correct purchasing have become the stuff of neo-conservative satire.