red republicann.
/rɛd rᵻˈpʌblᵻk(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌrɛd rəˈpəblək(ə)n/, /ˌrɛd riˈpəblək(ə)n/ A person who holds radically left-wing republican views. Cf. red republic n.Originally with reference to supporters of the European Revolutions of 1848.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > [noun] > revolutionary
innovator1598
revolver1698
revolutionist1710
sansculotte1790
revolutionary1795
revolutionizer1798
revolutioner1803
descamisado1821
radical1822
sansculottist1833
revolutionaire1835
red republican1848
redshirt1889
Bolshevik1926
Young Turk1948
1848 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 12 June Lagrange (a red republican).
1848 Illustr. London News 1 July 415/1 The ‘Red Republicans’ have justified their name. They have filled the streets of Paris with blood... The working classes, or ‘Red Republicans’, were imbued with the doctrines of Communism.
1857 C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace II. ii. 23 All I am clear about is, that even a Red Republican is less red than he is painted.
1928 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 14 493 A Mr. Boernstein, editor of the Anzeiger,..is described as a Socialist, a radical, a Red Republican.
1960 R. K. Webb Harriet Martineau xi. 322 Only Cavour was capable..of steering his way between the reactionary agents and the red republicans.
1972 T. Coleman Passage to Amer. xiv. 221 Kossuth came to America in 1851... He came to be seen as a continental red republican.
1994 Evening Standard (Nexis) 13 June 7 Red republicans..will be discomfited by all this. For the Queen and I..emerges as a wistful royalist fantasy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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