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单词 manifest destiny
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Definition of manifest destiny in English:

manifest destiny

nounmanɪfɛstˈdɛstəni
mass noun
  • The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Neither he nor Vattimo mentions manifest destiny or the white man's burden, but these ideas lurk disturbingly close to the surface of their urbanely arrogant prose.
    • A sense of manifest destiny began to attach itself to their progress.
    • The belief in manifest destiny had opened up North America as far as the West Coast, and after the Civil War the nation had come of age.
    • The first paper draws our attention to the concept of manifest destiny and current war discourse in the American context.
    • Americans looked to the western lands as an opportunity for large amounts of free land, for growth of industry, and manifest destiny.
    • But in truth, you know, that was really the birth of what would become manifest destiny and the western expansion.
    • That worked in post-Puritan America and led to the doctrine of manifest destiny and some positive missions.
    • Chapters on manifest destiny and the Indian wars trace Ambrose's own travels across the country.
    • The concept of manifest destiny first entered American political parlance in the 1840s, when continental expansionism first became physically sustainable.
    • The idea of manifest destiny and ‘internal exploration’ as you mentioned is still very strong in the hearts of many Americans.
    • The very idea of manifest destiny encouraged men and women to dream big dreams.
    • The idea of manifest destiny was being used long before John O'Sullivan, an editor for the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, coined the term in 1845.
    • The war with Mexico was also a product of the United States' belief of manifest destiny.
    • The idea of American exceptionalism was expressed domestically in the doctrine of manifest destiny.
    • The end result of manifest destiny, racism and unrestrained capitalism has led to a public that yearns to be fooled.
    • In my experience, secular Americans are as likely as religious Americans to believe that we are the rightful beneficiaries of some kind of manifest destiny.
    • The Civil War combatants have laid down their arms and have joined in the mission of manifest destiny in hopes of settling the final American frontier of the late 1800s.
    • Servitude has often been ‘justified’ by theories of manifest destiny, evolutionary or social superiority.
    • This is not to be confused with utopianism, nor with a doctrine of manifest destiny, whether national or global, nor with a theocratic theory of the state.
    • This goal was compatible with the doctrine of manifest destiny, and Spencer's Social Darwinism.
 
 
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