单词 | superstate |
释义 | superstaten. 1. A powerful or dominant state; a superpower (superpower n. 2).In quot. 1905: a more advanced, higher form of state.In some instances, esp. in relation to the German Empire and to the Soviet Union, perhaps also with the implication of sense 2. ΚΠ 1905 C. H. Henderson Children of Good Fortune xii. 279 If there be a super-family, a super-school, a super-church, a super-state, which will further individual good fortune and social welfare more efficiently than their established prototypes [etc.]. 1915 Month Jan. 53 The German notion of a Super-State is ‘absolutely inconsistent with the true notion of a great community of nations’. 1935 J. E. C. Welldon Forty Years On ii. 76 I have felt that the Darwinian theory of the survival of the fittest..was responsible for the German doctrine of the super-state, which, as the Germans conceived it, could only be Germany. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 272 The iron commissars of the Soviet superstate. 2008 Daily Mail (Nexis) 25 Mar. 6 China hoped the Olympic Games would show the world that it had finally arrived as a modern superstate. 2. In early use: a supranational government or authority. Now more usually: a very large state formed from a federation or union of nations, spec. a unified European state considered as the ultimate project of the European Union and its predecessors. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > possessing dominant or world power world-state1902 superstate1914 1914 D. S. Cairns Answer to Bernhardi 6 It [sc. morality] has no rightful place in the relations of States with each other, because there is no Super-state to enforce it. 1922 Bp. Temple in H. Begbie Painted Windows x. 186 The greatest political aim of humanity, in my opinion, is a super-state. 1946 Rotarian June 13/1 The principle of collective security, as distinct from the creation of a superstate, is not new in American foreign policy. 1991 N. Wyn Ellis John Major i. 18 To Mrs Thatcher, the plans for a European superstate, and many of the proposals put forward by Jacques Delors, were unacceptably socialist. 2007 Daily Mail (Nexis) 6 June 28 Europe yesterday took another big step towards becoming a superstate by proposing joint EU embassies throughout the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1905 |
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