Triplicen.
The Triple Alliance (see triple adj. and adv. Compounds 1c) of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, formed in 1882 against Russia and France. Also transferred.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > specific alliances
auld alliance1566
the League1589
armed neutrality1780
German Confederation1786
Germanic Confederation1815
Holy Alliance1823
the Concert of Europe1841
Sonderbund1847
Triplice1896
Soviet block1919
communist bloc1922
Eastern bloc1922
Soviet bloc1924
axis1936
Rome–Berlin Axis1936
Eastern block1938
communist block1941
Western European Union1944
Arab League1945
Western Union1948
Atlantic Pact1949
NATO1949
North Atlantic Treaty Organization1949
Seato1954
W.E.U.1954
Warsaw Pact1955
Atlantic Alliance1958
ASEAN1967
G201972
1896 Daily News 15 Dec. 5/3 The same demand has been made to the other members of the Triplice.
1897 Daily News 6 Sept. 5/2 The Triplice desires peace at any cost.
1901 Speaker 20 Apr. 74/2 It would be misleading to call the Triplice a League of peace.
1908 Daily Chron. 30 July 3/6 A suggestion for a new alliance, a triplice of Britain, France, and Germany, in the interests of peace, was made by Mr. Prust, of Launceston.
1911 Djavid Bey Let. 28 Oct. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. ii. xvii. 1368 The attack of one of the triple alliance powers on our territory has turned the public opinion greatly against the triplice.
1947 Hist. of The Times III. x. 250 The conclusion that the Triplice..was weak as an Alliance, was forced to the forefront of Wallace's mind.
1979 E. Ingram Beginning of Great Game ix. 263 The tsar forestalled Palmerston's attempt to erect a near-eastern triplice [of Britain, Austria and France].
Derivatives
ˈTriplicist n. a supporter of the Triplice; also attributive or as adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [adjective] > relating to alliance > favouring specific alliance
Triplicist1923
pro-Axis1938
Nato-ish1965
NATOist1974
society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > specific alliances > supporters of
Triplicist1923
Atlanticist1946
NATOist1966
transatlanticist1969
1923 J. Buchan Nations of To-day: Italy 172 It was able to give a decidedly ‘Triplicist’ aspect to the enterprise.
1924 Glasgow Herald 15 Jan. 7 It is all to the credit of the Triplicists..and very little to that of the Allies.
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