republicanlyadv.
/rᵻˈpʌblᵻk(ə)nli/, U.S. /rəˈpəblək(ə)nli/, /riˈpəblək(ə)nli/ In a republican manner.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [adverb] > republicanly
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1659 Eng. Monarchy freest State 9 The general peace either altogether unsetled, or done Republicanly, and so slightly, infirmly and not lastingly.
1788 in J.-P. Brissot de Warville & É. Clavière tr. Considerations Relative Situation France & U.S.A. v. 89 (note) It would without doubt, be more proper to say republicanly [than nobly]; but this word (republicainement) does not exist in our language.
1837 J. S. Mill Let. June in Wks. (1963) XII. 339 Twelve pages on the immediately present state of French politics..written republicanly by Thibaudeau.
1862 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle vi. 116 He called for the fatted pork, that I might be entertained right republicanly.
1937 G. Dennis Coronation Comm. 124 The Transatlantic tourists who used to crowd into Crathie Parish Church were a torture to King George and Queen Mary, on whose lips and hands even in the act of prayer they republicanly feasted.
1996 Polit. Theory 24 17 Arguments..so severe as to portend the radical instrumentalization of childhood: Machiavelli, Harrington, and Cato's letters at their most republicanly insistent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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