| 单词 | virginia abstractionist |
| 释义 | > as lemmasVirginia abstractionist b. U.S. Politics (chiefly depreciative). A doctrinaire supporter or advocate of states' rights, typically from one of the Southern states. Frequently in Virginia abstractionist. Now historical.Frequently with deliberate connotation of sense A. 1c. ΚΠ 1841 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 6 Apr. If to oppose a high tariff, internal improvements, and a splendid and extravagant Government..is an abstraction, then, for one, I glory in being a Virginia abstractionist. 1841 Virginia Free Press 9 Sept. To us the Abstractionists are amusing characters. We like to contemplate the air of confidence with which they vaunt their absurdities. 1847 Littell's Living Age 16 Oct. 141/1 The South Carolina abstractionists are indignant. 1860 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 8 May He is regarded as a kind of champion of Southern rights against Northern attacks... Some few ultra abstractionists may oppose him, principle. But they will be borne down by the popular torrent. 1943 H. Wish George Fitzhugh xviii. 292 For the Southern abstractionists who argued over doctrines of political sovereignty, he expressed his contempt, insisting that the states were already nations in fact. 1990 W. W. Freehling Road to Disunion I. xxii. 393 Precisely Upshur's combination of zeal for principle and passion for evidence made him seem to the somewhat theoretical, somewhat practical Tyler the right pragmatic abstractionist. < as lemmas |
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