Definition of Girondist in English:
Girondist
(also Girondin)
noun dʒɪˈrɒndɪstdʒəˈrɑndəst
A member of the French moderate republican Party in power during the Revolution 1791–3, so called because the party leaders were the deputies from the department of the Gironde.
Example sentencesExamples
- In turn, the Girondists ' supporters rebelled against the Convention.
- The point is that both the moderation of the constitutional Girondists and the anti-constitutional Jacobins had depended on being able to stir and steer popular power.
- In June 1793, factional disputes with the Convention resulted in the replacement of the Girondins with the Jacobins, a far more radical group.
- What made a Girondin was revolutionary intransigence: an attitude of mind that was not prepared to compromise the principles of 1789, whatever happened.
- Like many political revolutionaries, the origins of the anarchists lie in the French Revolution; this was the first time the word was used, by the Girondins.
Origin
From archaic French Girondiste (now Girondin).
Definition of Girondist in US English:
Girondist
(also Girondin)
noundʒəˈrɑndəstjəˈrändəst
A member of the French moderate republican party in power 1791–93 during the French Revolution, so called because the party leaders were the deputies from the department of the Gironde.
Example sentencesExamples
- Like many political revolutionaries, the origins of the anarchists lie in the French Revolution; this was the first time the word was used, by the Girondins.
- The point is that both the moderation of the constitutional Girondists and the anti-constitutional Jacobins had depended on being able to stir and steer popular power.
- What made a Girondin was revolutionary intransigence: an attitude of mind that was not prepared to compromise the principles of 1789, whatever happened.
- In June 1793, factional disputes with the Convention resulted in the replacement of the Girondins with the Jacobins, a far more radical group.
- In turn, the Girondists ' supporters rebelled against the Convention.
Origin
From archaic French Girondiste (now Girondin).