Definitions
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- noun politics A supporter or follower of François-Noël Babeuf or his ideas, including universal equal income and the abolition of private property.
Etymologies
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From French Babouviste, corresponding to Babeuf + -ist.
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Examples
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Sainte – Marguerite and shouted: “I am a Babouvist!”
Les Miserables 2008
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On the 4th of April, 1832, a passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!"
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Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!"
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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Babeuf and his comrades had been long forgotten, and this massive work now told the first and most thoroughgoing narrative of the Babouvist saga.
LewRockwell.com 2009
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