republicanismn.
/rᵻˈpʌblᵻkənɪz(ə)m/, /rᵻˈpʌblᵻkn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /rəˈpəbləkəˌnɪz(ə)m/, /riˈpəbləkəˌnɪz(ə)m/ 1. The spirit characteristic of a republic or republican ideas; support for or adherence to republican principles; republican government or institutions.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [noun] > republican system
republica1646
republicanism1685
Marianne1870
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > republicanism
republicanism1685
republicism1790
1685 H. More Cursory Refl. 22 Loyalty and Monarchy is secured against Republicanism, Blood, and Rebellion.
1715 J. Addison Freeholder No. 29. ⁋6 For with some of these men, at present, loyalty to our king is Republicanism, and rebellion Passive-obedience.
1762 D. Hume Let. 5 July (1932) I. 367 I fancy Rousseau's crime is only some sallies of Republicanism, and Protestantism, and satire against French manners.
1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 143 Milton's republicanism was, I am afraid, founded in an envious hatred of greatness.
1800 S. Smith 6 Serm. 110 There are many men of..approved integrity, who have unjustly incurred the charge of republicanism.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. vii. 148 Tyranny seems..better adapted to these countries, than republicanism.
1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. iv. 180 England herself once attempted the costume of republicanism.
1905 Penny Illustr. Paper 18 Nov. 318/1 In the middle of the last century a wave of republicanism swept over Europe that threatened to carry away every monarch.
1962 K. Martin Crown & Establishment i. 16 Broadcasters may argue about socialism, birth control and even homosexuality, but I do not recall republicanism being discussed or even mentioned on the B.B.C.
2004 Australian (Nexis) 18 Nov. 11 He has traded monarchism for republicanism.
2. U.S. Politics. Usually with capital initial. The principles and policies of the Republican Party (see republican adj. 3a). Also: support for or membership of this party. With quot. 1801 cf. republican adj. 3a(b).
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1801 M. Cutler Let. 21 Mar. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 43 Jefferson's speech, though a mixed medley of Jacobinism, Republicanism, and Federalism..is extremely smooth.
1855 N.Y. Herald 19 Nov. 8/3 But republicanism is put in the background as a political power by the demonstration of strength made by the Know Nothings in this State.
1900 T. Roosevelt Let. 13 Aug. in C. G. Washburn Theodore Roosevelt i. 36 Judge Andrews needs no endorsement from any man living as to his Republicanism.
1931 Amer. Mercury Feb. 230/1 Above the even level of Republicanism there rise the heads of the President, the ex-President and Senator Morrow of New Jersey.
1980 Economist 15 Mar. 27/3 Florida is not only less hostile to Republicanism than the states to the north, it is potentially less hostile to Bushism.
1989 Washington Post 8 Dec. a19/5 Take away anticommunism and antiabortionism and you have carved out the heart of Republicanism.
2003 Guardian 29 Aug. (Friday Review section) 15/2 West Texas small-towners who believe in God, high school football, barbecue cuisine, backyard auto-repair, the Dallas Cowboys, and honest-to-God Republicanism.
3. Also with capital initial. In Irish contexts: advocacy of or support for complete Irish independence from Great Britain, esp. as opposed to more limited forms of self-government; opposition to British rule or control in Ireland. Cf. Home Rule n.After 1921, republicanism in Ireland came to signify opposition to the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, whereby the Irish Free State (1921–37) became a dominion of the British Empire and Northern Ireland remained a devolved region of the United Kingdom. Particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, the term came to be somewhat associated with support for Sinn Fein, or for the Provisional IRA (and other nationalist paramilitary groups), as distinct from the more moderate nationalism of the Nationalist Party and its successor the Social Democratic and Labour Party.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > principles or policies
whiteboyism1777
Defenderism1795
United Irishism1800
republicanism1807
Orangeism1811
Rockism1824
repeal1830
unionism1831
whitefootism1832
West Britonism1841
Young Irelandism1846
Home Rule1858
Fenianism1866
Land-leaguism1881
nationalism1885
Sinn Feinism1907
partition1919
Ulsterization1977
1807 T. A. Emmet in W. J. Mac Neven Pieces of Irish Hist. 17 The societies of United Irishmen..were charged with harbouring concealed designs of republicanism and separation from England.
1872 Belfast News-let. 23 Mar. They had been asked to give their support and their moral influence to the cause of Republicanism and to the Fenians.
1921 San Antonio (Texas) Light 17 May 7/1 One side states the issue as the British empire versus republicanism and other defines it as partition versus a United Ireland.
1936 Anglo-Celt (Cavan, Ireland) 14 Mar. 10/6 He was glad to see that the spirit of Republicanism was still kept alive in the North, despite the coercion policy of Viscount Craigavon and his party who had partitioned the country.
1975 Times 29 July 2/5 I hate and detest everything the IRA stand for... They stand for murder and republicanism. I do not want to see an end to partition. I see Northern Ireland as belonging to the United Kingdom.
1988 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 16 Apr. (Spectrum section) 69 Republicanism is in his blood...‘I don't hate anybody. I hate the British presence in this country [sc. Northern Ireland]’.
2001 J. Rae Sister Genevieve vii. 130 There were also families whose support for Republicanism rose and fell with events; girls who were at the school during the hunger strikes, for example, had the impression that many of their contemporaries were at that period pro-Republican.
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1837 J. F. Cooper Recoll. Europe I. vi. 196 When I say avoids the affectations of republicanisms, I do not mean the points connected with principles, but those vulgar and underbred pretensions of ultra equality and liberalism.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 57 With..kindly endurance of the many rough republicanisms wherewith I assailed him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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