| 单词 | disunionist |
| 释义 | disunionist|dɪsˈjuːnɪənɪst|
[f. prec. + -ist.]
One who advocates or works for disunion: spec. a. In U.S. politics, One of those who, before or during the civil war of 1861–65, advocated a dissolution of the Union. b. In English politics, applied controversially to an advocate of the repeal or modification of the Act of Union with Ireland.
1846Worcester cites North. 1852Blackw. Mag. LXXII. 47 The population is divided really into Unionists, or Compromise-men, and Disunionists, or Abolitionists. 1854L. Oliphant Let. in Life (1891) I. iv. 124 There are the Whigs and Democrats, and Filibusters..Disunionists and Federalists. 1861Lowell E Pluribus Unum Prose Wks. 1890 V. 52 It is time that we turned up our definitions in some more trustworthy dictionary than that of..disunionists and their..accomplices. 1889Catholic Household 5 Oct. 10/2 The Disunionists..seem to revel in fiery invective of a zoological character.
c. attrib. or as adj.
1884Goldw. Smith in Contemp. Rev. Sept. 317 The disunionist movement in Ireland. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. iii. lvi. 377 The disunionist spirit of the South which led to the war.
So disˈunionism, the doctrine of disunionists.
1894Swinburne Stud. Prose & Poetry 102 Disunionism, dissolutionism, or communalism. |
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