New Rightistn.adj.
/ˌnjuː ˈrʌɪtɪst/, U.S. /ˈn(j)u ˈraɪdᵻst/ Originally U.S.
A. n.
A member or supporter of the New Right movement.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the right > adherent of
praetorian1647
illiberal1818
rightist1894
right-winger1920
fascist1921
righty1961
establishmentarian1962
New Rightist1977
neo-con1979
1977 Nation (U.S.) 5 Mar. 258 Those such as [Howard] Phillips who call themselves ‘New Rightists’ regard the free exchange of ideas as intolerable.
1978 U.S. News & World Rep. 23 Jan. 25/3 Some New Rightists..see the Republican Party as ‘elitist’.
1996 Prospect Mar. 35/1 Some new rightists are disturbed by the moral hazard generated by disincentives to work.
B. adj.
Characteristic of the New Right; that belongs to or supports the New Right movement.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [adjective] > right
illiberal1649
white?1740
right1794
conservative1802
centre-right1822
agricolous1825
hunkerish1857
right wing1857
rightward1887
rightist1894
rightwards1931
right-of-centre1937
establishmentarian1962
righty1970
neo-con1979
New Rightist1981
1981 Time 14 Sept. 25/3 All of Helms' proposals may be overshadowed by more politic New Rightist initiatives.
1995 Anthropol. Today 11 11 The sudden expansion into new lands, as well as the stream of violent incidents that followed, were accompanied by a new rightist nationalist rhetoric.
2001 Canad. Rev. Sociol. & Anthropol. (Nexis) 1 Aug. 309 The New Rightist economic ideology has sometimes been called neo-conservative..but is more widely recognized by the term neo-liberal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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