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- noun Opposition to
authority ; the quality of beingantiauthoritarian
Etymologies
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Examples
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The tone of comedy at that time existed in a narrow window between silly antiauthoritarianism and wanting to punch you in the face.
Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons Greg Fitzsimmons 2010
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Ferris manifests—principally, radically—all the positive and negative qualities I was credited with by those who reported back to me: infallibility, unflappableness, will bordering on amorality, antiauthoritarianism bordering on self-rule.
Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007
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For another thing, his antiauthoritarianism, antimilitarism, and borderless humanitarianism cause him to find the acts of political domination, war, and empire which make up the vast bulk of these “great” deeds and events not morally edifying but morally repugnant.
Johann Gottfried von Herder Forster, Michael 2007
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Ferris manifests—principally, radically—all the positive and negative qualities I was credited with by those who reported back to me: infallibility, unflappableness, will bordering on amorality, antiauthoritarianism bordering on self-rule.
Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007
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Ferris manifests—principally, radically—all the positive and negative qualities I was credited with by those who reported back to me: infallibility, unflappableness, will bordering on amorality, antiauthoritarianism bordering on self-rule.
Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007
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Legalism preached rule by law, not the moral suasion of Confucianism or the antiauthoritarianism of Daoism.
4. Legalism 2001
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The ugly truth is that this outlaw culture, with its anti-intellectualism, antiauthoritarianism and nihilism, will do more harm than virtually anything else to a generation of blacks.
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Obviously, you can understand that today, I have the same relation to socialism as you have to antiauthoritarianism.
Indymedia Ireland 2009
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"The antiauthoritarianism of the lyrics appealed to me," he says.
unknown title 2009
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antiauthoritarianism of, 97–98, 144–47 see also psychiatric or psychological counseling parenting programs, 14
Parent in Control Gregory Bodenhamer 1995
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