Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of a doughface; liability to be led by one of stronger mind or will; pliability; specifically, subservience to proslavery influences.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The character of a doughface; truckling pliability.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun derogatory The character of a
doughface ;pliability .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You say that the Republicans go too far in snubbing the UN, but at the same time liberals need to beware of “doughfaceism.”
Beinart Talks Back 2006
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You say that the Republicans go too far in snubbing the UN, but at the same time liberals need to beware of “doughfaceism.”
Beinart Talks Back 2006
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In the southern States even the women were not degraded below their working population, they were not humiliated in seeing their coachmen, gardeners and waiters go to the polls to legislate on their interests; hence there was a pride and dignity in their bearing not found in the women of the North, and a pluck in the chivalry before which northern doughfaceism has ever cowered.
Address To The First Anniversary Of The American Equal Rights Association 1867
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In the Southern States even the women were not degraded below their working population, they were not humiliated in seeing their coachmen, gardeners, and waiters go to the polls to legislate on their interests; hence there was a pride and dignity in their bearing not found in the women of the North, and pluck in the chivalry before which Northern doughfaceism has ever cowered.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862
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